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Hep-Th, or high-energy theoretical physics, explores the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the forces that govern them. Researchers in this field use complex mathematics to understand everything from subatomic particles to the behavior of black holes, often pushing the boundaries of what we know about space and time.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv repository to ensure you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving discipline. For every new preprint uploaded to arXiv under this category, our team generates both accessible plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge research understandable regardless of your background.
Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper proposes a new information-theoretic black hole entropy formula based on Kullback-Leibler divergence that resolves the conflict with the third law of thermodynamics while recovering the Bekenstein-Hawking area law as a high-temperature leading term.
This paper extends an information-theoretic black hole entropy, defined via Kullback-Leibler divergence and satisfying the Nernst third law, to charged and rotating Kerr-Newman cases while demonstrating that its thermodynamic properties can be reproduced by an infrared deformation of General Relativity that generates a small positive effective cosmological term.
This paper characterizes the full family of static, spherically symmetric axion-dilaton solutions in four-dimensional string theory as orbits of the FJNW solution and demonstrates that, unlike the Schwarzschild black hole which saturates the curvature threshold at the string-black-hole correspondence surface, all scalar-haired branches exhibit larger curvature diagnostics, though they may still remain under perturbative control in the weak-coupling regime.
This paper investigates the deformation of supersymmetric truly confining gauge theories by small anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking to identify their global symmetry breaking patterns, providing results that can be compared with lattice simulations of non-supersymmetric theories.
This paper challenges the universality between anomaly-mediated and non-supersymmetric limits in pseudoreal confining SUSY gauge theories by demonstrating that the non-SUSY spectra lack massless particles, thereby contradicting tumbling expectations and revealing significant tensions that standard or non-standard tumbling mechanisms cannot easily reconcile.
This paper proposes a constructive interpretation demonstrating that both Lorentz and gauge symmetries, along with curved spacetime geometry, emerge isomorphically from dynamical constraints on wave-packet excitations within a unified classical continuous elastic substrate medium, without requiring quantization or positing these symmetries as fundamental.
This paper establishes an integral basis for B-brane central charges and derives exact monodromy expressions for Calabi-Yau fourfold flops using gauged linear sigma models, interpreting these monodromies as EZ twists associated with exceptional surface contractions and demonstrating their decomposition into spherical twists for specific splitting configurations.
This paper develops a practical framework for quantum large deviation theory by demonstrating that dominant rare fluctuations minimize measurement-induced relative entropy, thereby bridging the gap between thermal and quantum regimes in systems ranging from anharmonic oscillators to stochastic inflation in cosmology.
This paper honors Professor K. Alex Muller by recounting the author's scientific collaboration with him and presenting the conclusion that cubic-to-trigonal and cubic-to-tetragonal transitions in perovskites belong to distinct universality classes, characterized respectively by tetracritical and bicritical phase diagrams that asymptotically evolve into a triple point.
This paper employs the virial theorem to derive scaling properties of the thermodynamic free energy for massless fermionic matter in rigid rotation, establishing that hydrodynamic descriptions require a specific hierarchy between the system's size and temperature, and demonstrating that thermodynamic variables depend on angular velocity through the product , a finding consistent with recent lattice QCD simulations and used to estimate the light quark contribution to the moment of inertia in Quark-Gluon Plasma.