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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 introduces a novel Kontorovich-Lebedev-Fourier frequency-momentum space for de Sitter correlators derived from the decomposition of spacetime isometry group representations, which simplifies perturbative computations by transforming propagators into rational functions and recasting loop integrals as orthogonality relations among group-theoretical coefficients.
This paper demonstrates that the Aretakis instability weakens as the degree of horizon degeneracy increases, leading to the proposal of a new black hole geometry with an infinitely degenerate horizon that is stable and could serve as a final "graveyard" state for extremal black holes.
This paper identifies cluster algebras as sub-algebras of that encode the singularity structures of planar conformal Feynman integrals in four dimensions, demonstrating their utility in bootstrapping complex multi-loop amplitudes like the three-loop wheel integral and extending insights to non-conformal kinematics and three-dimensional ABJM theory.
This paper investigates bound-state equations for exotic hadrons (tetraquarks and baryons) composed of bosonic and fermionic quarks in two-dimensional QCD using both light-front and equal-time quantization, deriving new equations in the finite momentum frame and numerically demonstrating how their wave functions converge to light-cone forms under continuous boosting.
This paper investigates a multi-field inflationary scenario where the Chern-Simons gravitational term is coupled to a massive spectator field rather than the inflaton, deriving the resulting parity-violating interactions and demonstrating that they produce distinctive parity-odd shapes in primordial scalar-tensor bispectra while establishing constraints on the model's couplings and non-Gaussianity amplitudes.
This paper investigates finite cutoff JT gravity by calculating the accelerated saturation of black hole interior volume and baby universe emission probabilities, while exploring connections to Krylov complexity, dual matrix model universality, and non-perturbative corrections to the moduli space volume.
This paper provides a systematic comparative study of chaos indicators in closed and open Dicke models, revealing that spectral form factors can exhibit chaotic signatures even in the regular closed regime while demonstrating that the dissipative spectral form factor robustly identifies the concurrence of the superradiant phase transition and a shift to Ginibre Unitary Ensemble statistics in the open system.
By formulating the renormalization group as a quantum channel, this paper establishes hyperscaling relations for ground-state fidelity in critical quantum field theories, demonstrating that expectation values of slow momentum modes can be accurately approximated by their fixed-point limits to improve the efficiency of numerical and analytical simulations.
This paper presents a concrete mechanism for constructing metastable four-dimensional de Sitter vacua in heterotic string theory by combining non-geometric R-flux compactifications, governed by Malcev and Sabinin algebra structures, with leading torsion-squared corrections and hidden-sector gaugino condensation to stabilize the scalar potential at positive energy.
This paper introduces a Functional Renormalization Group framework that detects signal onset in nearly continuous spectra by identifying a "dimensional phase transition" in the spectral geometry, enabling signal detection at ratios significantly lower than traditional BBP thresholds.