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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 demonstrates that within a specific class of higher-derivative N=3 and N=4 Poincaré supergravity theories, flat spacetime is the unique fully supersymmetric solution, contrasting with N=2 supergravity which admits additional vacua such as the Bertotti-Robinson geometry.
This paper utilizes a quantum phase-space formalism to derive and verify the relativistic spatial distributions of transverse orbital angular momentum, intrinsic spin, and total angular momentum in the transverse plane for spin-0 and spin-1/2 targets, confirming the transverse spin sum rule and revealing non-trivial angular momentum distributions even for spin-0 systems.
This paper employs a bootstrap approach combining Mellin amplitude factorization, supersymmetric constraints, and protected observables to compute the first stringy correction to the five-point correlation function of 20' operators in super Yang-Mills, leaving only a single undetermined coefficient that is constrained by non-protected CFT data and flat-space limits, while also deriving corrections for related four-point correlators.
This review paper surveys the challenges and recent developments in non-supersymmetric string theory, focusing on the mechanisms of tachyon emergence, the implications of worldsheet tadpoles, and the exploration of stable, tachyon-free vacua within the non-supersymmetric string landscape.
This paper derives the conservative two-body potential and scattering angle for charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theory by expanding one-loop on-shell soft amplitudes in the Post-Minkowskian regime, demonstrating that infrared-finite results consistent with the Lippmann-Schwinger equation successfully track electromagnetic and dilatonic charge effects while reducing smoothly to General Relativity.
This paper presents solutions to the discrete Nahm equation by imposing Platonic symmetries and directly calculates the spectral curves of the corresponding hyperbolic $SU(2)$ magnetic monopoles.
This paper investigates the Schwinger effect with backreaction in 1+1D massive QED using a bosonized, fully quantum approach to demonstrate that the electric field obeys a classical nonlinear equation and exhibits dissipation-free oscillations with a plasma frequency shift that semiclassical approximations fail to capture.
This paper investigates how shear viscosity in the post-inflationary universe modifies the propagation of primordial gravitational waves, demonstrating that viscosity induces additional damping and spectral running—such as a blue tilt from freeze-out in the electron-photon-baryon plasma—thereby altering the gravitational wave energy density spectrum by approximately .
This paper proposes a real, grade-preserving algebraic framework for -qubit quantum computation using the tensor product , where the bivector provides the complex structure and a canonical stabilizer mapping ensures compatibility between Clifford algebra operations and unitary evolution on the Hilbert space.
This paper utilizes the heat kernel technique to demonstrate that specific ghost-free, infinite derivative gravity theories with generic form factors can completely cancel one-loop ultraviolet logarithmic divergences in four dimensions, thereby identifying conditions for renormalizability and providing general expressions for beta functions.