Related papers: F-Theory, GUTs and Chiral Matter
This is a series of lectures on M Theory for cosmologists. After summarizing some of the main properties of M Theory and its dualities I show how it can be used to address various fundamental and phenomenological issues in cosmology.
These lecture notes include the following topics. Chapter 1 deals with QCD and its global symmetries in the chiral limit, explicit symmetry breaking in terms of the quark masses, and the concept of Green functions and Ward identities…
A field-enlarging transformation in the chiral electrodynamics is performed. This introduces an additional gauge symmetry to the model that is unitary and anomaly-free and allows for comparison of different models discussed in the…
In this paper, the notion of F-schemes, a "generalization" of schemes, is introduced to cover unitary noncommutative rings.
This paper is a guide for the pure mathematician who would like to know more about cryptography based on group theory. The paper gives a brief overview of the subject, and provides pointers to good textbooks, key research papers and recent…
We propose a Seiberg duality for a 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $Spin(7)$ gauge theory with $F$ spinor matters. For $F \ge 6$, the theory allows a magnetic dual description with an $SU(F-4)$ gauge group. The matter content on the magnetic side is…
This set of notes is based on a lecture I gave at "50 years of Finite Geometry | A conference on the occasion of Jef Thas's 70th birthday," in November 2014. It consists essentially of three parts: in a first part, I introduce some ideas…
A gauge system is a classical field theory where among the fields there are connections in a principal G-bundle over the space-time manifold and the classical action is either invariant or transforms appropriately with respect to the action…
Summary talk presented at the Conference on Lattice Field Theory, Amsterdam, September, 1992. Abstract: The status of several proposals for defining a theory of chiral fermions on the lattice is reviewed and some new estimates for the upper…
The GUT-based approach to physics has been attractive since it was first put forward close to thirty years ago; it has been enriched by new ideas, notably supersymmetry and strings; and there are real hints that it is on the right track,…
The existing Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) calculations at order $p^6$ are reviewed. The principles of ChPT and how they are used are introduced. The main part is a review of the two- and three-flavour full two-loop calculations and…
These notes are a self-contained introduction to Galois theory, designed for the student who has done a first course in abstract algebra.
We present a classification of the massless chiral matter representations that can arise locally in M-theory on G(2) through geometrically engineered singularities. We will find that several of the more exceptional singularities could have…
In this chapter we present an overview of the main ideas and methods in the fractional integration and cointegration literature. We do not attempt to give a complete survey of this enormous literature, but rather a more introductory…
Motivated by potential phenomenological applications, we develop the necessary tools for building GUT models in F-theory. This approach is quite flexible because the local geometrical properties of singularities in F-theory…
In these lectures I will give an introduction to Feynman integrals. In the first part of the course I review the basics of the perturbative expansion in quantum field theories. In the second part of the course I will discuss more advanced…
These notes grew out of two lectures I have given on CAT(0) cube complexes. I've tried to keep the material elementary and self-contained in order to keep the material easily accessible and to provide an elementary introduction on the topic…
These notes contain a brief introduction to rational homotopy theory: its model category foundations, the Sullivan model and interactions with the theory of local commutative rings.
I review the basic ingredients of discretized gravity which motivate the introduction of Group Field Theory. Thus I describe the GFT formulation of some models and conclude with a few remarks on the emergence of noncommutative structures in…
Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Chiral gauge theories & the gauge anomaly, 3. The regularization problem, 4. Weyl fermions from 4+1 dimensions, 5. The Ginsparg-Wilson relation, 6. Gauge-invariant lattice regularization of anomaly-free…