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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 method that utilizes linear stability analysis in highly boosted frames, exploiting a phenomenon called "-suppression," to efficiently derive necessary causality conditions for relativistic hydrodynamic systems while remaining within the low-energy regime.
This paper reviews the construction of higher-form symmetries in supersymmetric theories using a supergeometry framework, revealing new topological conserved supercurrents and explicitly constructing their associated operators and defects in N=1 super-Maxwell theory, while also offering preliminary insights into building super-symmetry topological field theories from supergravity.
This paper derives the curvature expansion for the heat kernel trace and one-loop effective action of a non-vacuum quantum state in a quasi-thermal, non-static Euclidean gravitational background by introducing a covariant vector field that generalizes the Killing vector to inhomogeneous metrics, thereby establishing a locally rescaled effective temperature and analyzing the high-temperature asymptotics of nonlocal formfactors for potential cosmological applications.
This introductory article presents a mathematical definition of Coulomb branches for 3d N=4 supersymmetric gauge theories and utilizes this framework to establish geometric Satake correspondences for Kac-Moody Lie algebras.
This paper explores the connection between a model of two linked polymer rings with fixed Gaussian linking number and the statistical mechanics of non-relativistic anyons, demonstrating that self-dual field solutions govern the long-range interactions necessary to preserve the system's global topological properties while revealing a complex energy landscape with multiple minima.
This paper establishes a non-perturbative definition for topological string partition functions on Calabi-Yau threefolds by expressing them as products of resolved conifold partition functions weighted by sheaf invariants, enabling the computation of Borel sums and Stokes jumps that constitute non-perturbative corrections dependent solely on genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants.
This paper analyzes the matching of high and low temperature expansions for the effective action of massive scalar fields between infinite walls, highlighting how the exponential decay rate of vacuum energy at low temperatures differs by a factor of two depending on whether the boundary conditions connect the walls (periodic) or not (Dirichlet).
This paper develops a framework using analytic superspace and SU(m,m|2n)-covariant differential operators to construct superconformal blocks for general supermultiplets in 4D N=2 and N=4 theories, enabling the derivation of all such blocks from known half-BPS cases and advancing the conformal bootstrap in supersymmetric settings.
This paper presents a method to incorporate dynamical boundary gauge fields into holographic D-brane constructions governed by the Dirac-Born-Infeld action, enabling the computation of quasinormal mode dispersion relations that align with hydrodynamic predictions for systems with dynamical symmetry.
This paper investigates the scaling solutions and critical properties of an scalar field coupled to gravity in three and four dimensions using a proper-time functional renormalization group framework, confirming most qualitative and quantitative results from previous effective average action studies while highlighting specific differences in finite and large limits depending on the improvement scheme.