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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 the "shell formula," a unifying framework that provides explicit closed-form expressions and recursion relations for partition functions across diverse physical systems—including 5d super Yang-Mills instantons and various gauge origami configurations—by classifying their pole structures through arbitrary-dimensional Young diagrams.
This paper presents a systematic Hamiltonian formulation of minimally doubled lattice fermions in (3+1) dimensions, demonstrating that single-Weyl Hamiltonians arise from these systems via species-splitting mass terms and revealing that maintaining a single Weyl node generically requires moderate parameter tuning to prevent the emergence of additional nodes.
This paper validates the accuracy of Asymptotic Padé predictions against exact five-loop QCD results and recent findings, then leverages this success to provide new six-loop predictions for QCD and eight-loop predictions for theory.
This paper develops a heat kernel method to compute the one-loop effective action for general nonlinear electrodynamics theories in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, specifically addressing the challenges of non-minimal differential operators by calculating the DeWitt coefficients in the weak-field regime and analyzing causality conditions for conformal theories.
This paper constructs codimension-1 condensation defects via higher gauging with discrete torsion in the Symmetry Topological Field Theories of XY-plaquette and XYZ-cube models, demonstrating that these defects realize non-invertible self-duality symmetries at any coupling while revealing a continuous non-invertible $SO(2)$ symmetry in the XY-plaquette model.
This paper utilizes a worldline effective field theory in a Schwarzschild--Tangherlini background to compute the gravitational Compton amplitude up to third post-Minkowskian order, establishing a regulated bridge to black hole perturbation theory results while outlining applications for finite-size effects like spin and tidal features.
Using symplectic model order reduction, this paper demonstrates that the minimal number of canonical degrees of freedom required to describe the Hamiltonian evolution of a regularised scalar field scales with the area of the region rather than its volume, a phenomenon driven by the count of distinct normal-mode frequencies and observed in both flat and curved spacetimes as well as weakly interacting theories.
This paper establishes a bootstrap framework based on exact functional relations in the Fermi-gas formulation of ABJM theory to analytically derive instanton corrections to the free energy and supersymmetric Wilson loops, thereby confirming previously conjectural results and revealing novel nonperturbative structures.
This paper utilizes an equidistribution theorem for Hecke operators to demonstrate that in various large limits of 2d conformal field theories, the heavy sector of the partition function integrates out to leave only light state contributions, thereby providing a holographic interpretation as a sum over semiclassical handlebody geometries.
This paper presents a fully covariant and gauge-invariant formulation of electromagnetic wave propagation in static black hole spacetimes that reduces both axial and polar sectors to a unified master equation, enabling the derivation of a closed-form, position- and frequency-dependent effective refractive index in Schwarzschild geometry to provide an intuitive optical framework for analyzing gravitational effects on wave dynamics.