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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 develops a formalism for coupling matter to continuous spin gravity and calculates time-delay signatures in gravitational wave detectors, suggesting that current and future instruments could constrain the continuous spin scale to be below eV for ground-based interferometers and eV for pulsar timing arrays.
This paper generalizes the stability of Euclidean Giddings-Strominger axion wormholes from 4D Minkowski to AdS3 spacetime by explicitly constructing and analyzing regular classical solutions, thereby establishing them as stable contributions to the 3D gravitational path integral with potential implications for resolving wormhole paradoxes like the factorization problem.
This paper pioneers the application of light-front holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit to compute flavor-dependent entanglement entropy using a lattice-constrained dilaton potential, thereby revealing flavor-driven quantum correlations in confined and quark-gluon plasma phases that align with lattice QCD data and heavy-ion collision observables.
This paper investigates baryons, Skyrmions, and -periodicity anomalies in chiral and vector-like $SU(N)$ gauge theories with mixed-representation matter, revealing that Skyrmions are absent in chiral models (where heavy stable baryons suggest a mismatch requiring deeper dynamical mechanisms) but present in vector-like models, while also determining that domain wall dynamics in the Color-flavor locked phase match the anomaly without new degrees of freedom only when the color group is fully broken.
This paper presents a data-driven neural network framework that successfully reconstructs the five-dimensional background geometry, dilaton potential, and chiral-symmetry-breaking scalar potential of holographic QCD from unflavored meson mass spectra, enabling accurate predictions for the pion spectrum and revealing a steeper-than-quadratic infrared dilaton behavior.
This paper demonstrates that the minimum domain-wall Skyrmions in low-energy QCD under strong magnetic fields are fermions with baryon number one, which can form by splitting previously identified bosonic domain-wall Skyrmions without energy cost.
This paper establishes the first exact correspondence between Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theory and gauged Skyrme-Maxwell-Einstein models, enabling the transfer of electrovacuum solution-generating techniques to construct new exact solutions with nonvanishing baryonic charge, including a rotating configuration where baryonic charge quantization enforces a quantization of the Kerr rotation parameter.
This paper refutes a recent proposal that the strong CP problem can be avoided by a specific order of limits in the path integral, demonstrating through exactly solvable quantum mechanical models on a ring that this procedure fails to reproduce the correct physical energy spectrum.
This paper introduces a reinforcement learning algorithm to explore the holographic entropy cone by searching for graph realizations of target entropy vectors, successfully rediscovering known properties for N=3 and resolving the status of six "mystery" extreme rays for N=6 by proving three are realizable while suggesting the other three reveal unknown holographic inequalities.
This paper establishes a phase-resolved field-space distance budget for non-inflationary cosmologies, deriving new constraints on ekpyrotic and bouncing models by integrating anisotropy suppression, quantum gravity-inspired cutoffs, and observational limits to demonstrate that achieving scale-invariant perturbations with a red tilt necessitates ultra-fast-roll dynamics, sharp turns, or significant negative field-space curvature.