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In this study we work out thermodynamic functions for a quantum gas of mesons described as color-electric charge dipoles. They refer to a particular parametrization of the trigonometric Rosen-Morse potential which allows to be transformed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-27 Aram Bahroz Brzo , David Alvarez-Castillo

In this paper, for any compact Lie group $G$, we show that the space of $G$-invariant Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature (PSC) on any closed three-manifold is either empty or contractible. In particular, we prove the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow , Yangyang Li

We present in this paper a \boundary version" for theorems about minimality of volume and energy functionals on a spherical domain of threedimensional Euclidean sphere.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-28 Fabiano G. B. Brito , André Gomes , Giovanni S. Nunes

The paper is devoted to the study of topological properties, structure and classification of Morse flows with fixed points on the boundary of three-dimensional manifolds. We construct a complete topological invariant of a Morse flow,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Svitlana Bilun , Alexandr Prishlyak , Andrii Prus

We study supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories on the three-sphere, with massive matter and Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter, showing second order phase transitions for the non-Abelian theory, extending a previous result for the Abelian theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Leonardo Santilli , Miguel Tierz

We study the duality between theories of a fundamental scalar or fermion coupled to $U(N)$ Chern-Simons gauge theory at the level of the three-sphere partition function, or equivalently entanglement entropy across a circle. The duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-21 Simone Giombi

In this paper the free energy of the mass deformed ABJM theory on S^3 in the large N limit is studied. We find a new solution of the large N saddle point equation which exists for an arbitrary value of the mass parameter, and compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Tomoki Nosaka , Kazuma Shimizu , Seiji Terashima

The wedge geometry closed by a circular-cylindrical arc is a nontrivial generalization of the cylinder, which may have various applications. If the radial boundaries are not perfect conductors, the angular eigenvalues are only implicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 I. Brevik , S. A. Ellingsen , K. A. Milton

We construct a unified framework of geometrodynamics based on the Finsler geometry to reveal the relationship between spacetime and dynamics.The Lagrangian of electron in electromagnetic field as the Finsler function gives the Finslerian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mingwei Zhou , Shi-Dong Liang

This notes explores angle structures on ideally triangulated compact $3$-manifolds with high genus boundary. We show that the existence of angle structures implies the existence of a hyperbolic metric with totally geodesic boundary, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Faze Zhang , Ruifeng Qiu , Tian Yang

We investigate a squashing deformation of 3d N=2 supersymmetric theories on three-sphere, which have four supercharges. The deformation preserves SU(2)_L x U(1)_r isometry and all four supersymmetries. We compute the partition function and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Yosuke Imamura , Daisuke Yokoyama

This is the second of two articles in which we investigate the geometry of free boundary and capillary minimal surfaces in balls $B_R\subset\mathbb{S}^3$. In this article, we find monotonicity formulae which imply that capillary minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Jonathan J. Zhu

In this article we consider the static spherically symmetric spacetime metric of embedding class one. Specifically three new electromagnetic mass models are derived where the solutions are entirely dependent on the electromagnetic field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-09 S. K. Maurya , Y. K. Gupta , Saibal Ray , Sourav Roy Chowdhury

We enumerate a necessary condition for the existence of infinitely many geometrically distinct, non-constant, prime closed geodesics on an arbitrary closed Riemannian manifold $M$. That is, we show that any Riemannian metric on $M$ admits…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Sergio Charles

We represent the free energy functional by a diagrammatic series with tensorial coefficients indexed by powers of length scale. For hard cores, we obtain Percus' exact functional in one dimension and the Kierlik-Rosinberg form of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Gavin Leithall , Matthias Schmidt

Here we study geodesics connecting two given points on odd-dimensional spheres respecting the Hopf fibration. This geodesic boundary value problem is completely solved in the case of 3-dimensional sphere and some partial results are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Der-Chen Chang , Irina Markina , Alexander Vasil'ev

We prove that for every three dimensional manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly mean convex boundary, there exists a Morse function so that each connected component of its level sets has a uniform diameter bound, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Zhichao Wang , Bo Zhu

The conjectured F-theorem for three-dimensional field theories states that the finite part of the free energy on S^3 decreases along RG trajectories and is stationary at the fixed points. In previous work various successful tests of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Igor R. Klebanov , Silviu S. Pufu , Benjamin R. Safdi

In this paper, we consider the non-singular extension problem for circle-valued Morse functions on closed orientable surfaces. The problem asks, given a circle-valued Morse function $f\colon M\to S^{1}$ on a closed orientable surface $M$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Koki Iwakura

We study the effective potential of three-dimensional O($N$) models. In statistical physics the effective potential represents the free-energy density as a function of the order parameter (Helmholtz free energy), and, therefore, it is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Pelissetto , E. Vicari