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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 utilizes the cosmological Grassmannian to derive a closed-form expression for four-point wavefunction coefficients of conformally coupled scalars exchanging a particle of general mass and spin, expressing the result in terms of hypergeometric functions and Legendre polynomials to simplify the cosmological bootstrap computation.
This paper investigates algebraic locality principles on 2+1D closed lattices with non-invertible Gauss laws, demonstrating that while Haag duality holds exactly for "cuspless" regions, it requires a collar-induced weak form for cusped regions, and establishing both standard and weakened disjoint additivity for double models and general Hopf algebra constraints.
This paper demonstrates that coupling Ostrogradsky ghosts to dissipative baths within a non-equilibrium Keldysh-Lindblad framework can stabilize these unstable modes through a dissipative phase transition, effectively suppressing ghost excitations via either dynamically generated effective masses or strong overdamping.
This paper re-evaluates the proposed Higgs-top-Z mass coincidence relation using 2025 PDG data and NNLO matching, finding that while the pole-level geometric relation remains a viable test, the corresponding exact running-coupling boundary condition is incompatible with measurements, thereby necessitating a finite matching factor or new symmetry to explain the observed mass spectrum.
This paper introduces a generalized Cartan geometry framework based on differential graded Lie algebras that extends the tangent bundle to incorporate both global duality and local gauge groups, enabling the systematic construction of connections, torsion, and curvature for generic generalized geometries and their realization on the phase space of M-theory branes.
This paper presents the maximal analytic extension of a Schwarzschild-like black hole solution in Lorentz gauge theory, demonstrating that while its causal topology mirrors the standard Schwarzschild spacetime, its geometric properties such as horizon scale and surface gravity are uniquely determined by the parameter .
This paper investigates fermion localization in a five-dimensional braneworld within modified teleparallel gravity , demonstrating that non-minimal coupling to torsional invariants, particularly the teleparallel Gauss-Bonnet term, significantly alters effective potentials to enable the localization of a single chiral zero-mode and the emergence of resonant states, while information-theoretic measures confirm that these torsional modifications induce stronger confinement and nontrivial information redistribution.
This paper establishes a correspondence between Rényi mutual information and stabilizer Rényi entropy in electroweak scattering, attributing their shared dependence on the weak mixing angle to Yukawa mass insertions acting as quantum gates that minimize entropy to values consistent with purely axial vector-like couplings.
This paper investigates non-interacting holographic dark energy with the Hubble radius as an infrared cutoff within Einstein-Cartan gravity, demonstrating that a Weyssenhoff spin fluid naturally induces a torsion scalar scaling as , which drives cosmic acceleration, allows the dark energy equation of state to cross the phantom divide, and modifies the cosmic distance duality relation while remaining consistent with recent DESI observations.
This paper investigates how swampland-motivated priors on the slope and field excursion of an exponential quintessential dark energy model, when combined with observational data from Planck, DESI, and supernovae, can shift the inferred value of spatial curvature () compared to standard theory-agnostic analyses.