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We construct a four dimensional topological Quantum Field Theory from a modular tensor category. We complete the proof in the case of SU(2)q at a root of unity. Our construction may be important in the physical interpretation of the Chern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Louis Crane , David N. Yetter

In this paper we develop new techniques for revealing geometrical structures in phase space that are valid for aperiodically time dependent dynamical systems, which we refer to as Lagrangian descriptors. These quantities are based on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-05 Ana M. Mancho , Stephen Wiggins , Jezabel Curbelo , Carolina Mendoza

Lagrangian multiform theory is a variational framework for integrable systems. In this article we introduce a new formulation which is based on symplectic geometry and which treats position, momentum and time coordinates of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Vincent Caudrelier , Derek Harland

We show how field theory yields the exact description of intermediate phases in the scaling limit of two-dimensional statistical systems at a first order phase transition point. The ability of a third phase to form an intermediate wetting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-09 Gesualdo Delfino , Alessio Squarcini

The concept of the moduli space allows for a simple, universally applicable description of the low-energy dynamics of topological solitons. This description is remarkably insensitive to the properties of the underlying theory, whose details…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Thomas Steingasser

Multiple scalar fields appear in vast modern particle physics and gravity models. When they couple to gravity non-minimally, conformal transformation is utilized to bring the theory into Einstein frame. However, the kinetic terms of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

We give a lattice theory treatment of certain one and two dimensional quantum field theories. In one dimension we construct a combinatorial version of a non-trivial field theory on the circle which is of some independent interest in itself…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Charles Nash , Denjoe O' Connor

The problem of defining and constructing representations of the Canonical Commutation Relations can be systematically approached via the technique of {\it algebraic quantization}. In particular, when the phase space of the system is linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Alejandro Corichi , Jeronimo Cortez , Hernando Quevedo

We continue our study of the large N phase transition in q-deformed Yang-Mills theory on the sphere and its role in connecting topological strings to black hole entropy. We study in detail the chiral theory defined in terms of uncoupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Nicola Caporaso , Michele Cirafici , Luca Griguolo , Sara Pasquetti , Domenico Seminara , Richard J. Szabo

Topological phase transitions are typically characterized by abrupt changes in a quantized invariant. Here we report a contrasting paradigm in non-Hermitian parity-time symmetric systems, where the topological invariant remains conserved,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , Peng Xue , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

Topological recursion associates to a spectral curve, a sequence of meromorphic differential forms. A tangent space to the "moduli space" of spectral curves (its space of deformations) is locally described by meromorphic 1-forms, and we use…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 B Eynard

We study the cohomology of $G$-representation varieties and $G$-character stacks by means of a topological quantum field theory (TQFT). This TQFT is constructed as the composite of a so-called field theory and the 6-functor formalism of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Jesse Vogel

Two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) can be defined through its correlation functions. These must satisfy certain consistency conditions which arise from the cutting of world sheets along circles or intervals. The construction of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Ingo Runkel , Jens Fjelstad , Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

The practical use of non-Hermitian (i.e., typically, PT-symmetric) phenomenological quantum Hamiltonians is discussed as requiring an explicit reconstruction of the {\em ad hoc} Hilbert-space metrics which would render the time-evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 Miloslav Znojil

We discuss scalar conformal field theories (CFTs) that can be realized in structural phase transitions. The Landau condition and Lifshitz condition are reviewed, which are necessary conditions for a structural phase transition to be second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Junchen Rong

We study finite dimensional vector spaces over fields of elliptic functions equipped with two commuting aotomorphisms \sigma and \tau induced by isogenies of relatively prime orders. We give a structure theorem for such objects, that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Ehud de Shalit

In this work, a cosmological model is considered having two scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity with a mixed kinetic term. The model is characterized by the coupling function and the potential function which are assumed to depend on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-17 Santu Mondal , Roshni Bhaumik , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

Finite Euler hierarchies of field theory Lagrangians leading to universal equations of motion for new types of string and membrane theories and for {\it classical} topological field theories are constructed. The analysis uses two main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 D. B. Fairlie , J. Govaerts

How can one fully harness the power of physics encoded in relativistic $N$-body phase space? Topologically, phase space is isomorphic to the product space of a simplex and a hypersphere and can be equipped with explicit coordinates and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-26 Tianji Cai , Junyi Cheng , Nathaniel Craig , Giacomo Koszegi , Andrew J. Larkoski

We presented the topological current of Ehrenfest definition of phase transition. It is shown that different topology of the configuration space corresponds to different phase transition, it is marked by the Euler number of the interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tieyan Si