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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 derives analytical expressions for the one-loop quantum corrections to the Casimir effect and topological mass generation for a self-interacting real scalar field between rough parallel plates at low temperatures, utilizing WKB methods and -function regularization to account for both geometric perturbations and finite thermal effects.
This paper presents a hydrodynamic analog of the Klein Paradox using a linear elastic medium to demonstrate that vacuum instability and pair production arise from mechanical breakdown under supercritical stress, thereby offering a concrete pedagogical model for visualizing these quantum field theory phenomena.
This paper demonstrates that in the double-scaling limit of the SYK model, the emergent algebraic description of Kourkoulou-Maldacena pure states transitions from a mixed Type II factor to a pure Type I algebra when augmented with state-adapted dressed operators, thereby restoring access to the underlying microscopic purity and providing a concrete framework for understanding black hole interiors and closed universes.
This paper establishes a rigid superspace framework using a spurion superfield to systematically identify half-BPS spatially inhomogeneous impurity backgrounds in dimensions, deriving the corresponding BPS equations and energy bounds while addressing obstructions caused by explicit coordinate and derivative-dependent couplings.
This paper demonstrates that the thermality of the Unruh effect breaks down in null-shifted Rindler wedges for massive scalar and Dirac fields, as the mass term disrupts the conformal symmetry required for the characteristic exponential frequency mixing, resulting in a nonthermal response where the massive field remains unexcited.
This paper demonstrates that Many-Body Gravity (MBG), a modified 5-D gravity theory, naturally reproduces cosmic inflation and resolves time-definition issues in non-interacting universes by utilizing entropic terms and interacting massless scalar fields, all without requiring dark matter.
This paper employs a perturbative analysis of polynomial-type spatially covariant gravity Lagrangians up to cubic order around a cosmological background to derive specific coefficient conditions that eliminate the scalar mode, thereby identifying five explicit models that propagate only the two tensorial degrees of freedom characteristic of general relativity.
This paper proposes that negative densities of states in the 3D gravitational path integral can be cured by incorporating spinning states interpreted as bulk defects and overspinning BTZ geometries, which arise from mixed elliptic-hyperbolic identifications and exhibit causal pathologies despite being smooth pure gravity quotients of AdS.
This paper demonstrates that in the low-energy supergravity treatment of type IIB string theory on D-instanton wormhole profiles, the modes of broken local supersymmetry in the bulk generate non-vanishing fermionic diagonal modes on the boundaries via current-current two-point functions, extending these results to multi D-instanton and general Euclidean brane scenarios.
This paper establishes the equivalence between double-scaled fermionic and bosonic embedded ensembles and the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model by utilizing the Wick product of non-commuting Gaussian variables to derive spectral and correlation functions, thereby revealing a duality between model moments and expectation values in a chord Hilbert space.