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Using a two component $SL(2) $ isospinor formalism, we study the link between conifold $T^{\ast}\mathbb{S}^{3}$ and q-deformed non commutative holomorphic geometry in complex four dimensions. Then, thinking about conifold as a projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 El Hassan Saidi

We show how the space of complex spin structures of a closed oriented three-manifold embeds naturally into a space of quadratic functions associated to its linking pairing. Besides, we extend the Goussarov-Habiro theory of finite type…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-12-01 Florian Deloup , Gwenael Massuyeau

This paper relates skein spaces based on the Kauffman bracket and spin structures. A spin structure on an oriented 3-manifold provides an isomorphism between the skein space for parameter A and the skein space for parameter -A. There is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 John W. Barrett

An invariant of orientable 3-manifolds is defined by taking the minimum $n$ such that a given 3-manifold embeds in the connected sum of $n$ copies of $S^2 \times S^2$, and we call this $n$ the embedding number of the 3-manifold. We give…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Paolo Aceto , Marco Golla , Kyle Larson

Given a spin rational homology sphere $Y$ equipped with a $\mathbb{Z}/m$-action preserving the spin structure, we use the Seiberg--Witten equations to define equivariant refinements of the invariant $\kappa(Y)$ from \cite{Man14}, which take…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Imogen Montague

In this paper, we make use of the relations between the braid and mapping class groups of a compact, connected, non-orientable surface N without boundary and those of its orientable double covering S to study embeddings of these groups and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Daciberg Lima Gonçalves , John Guaschi , Miguel Maldonado

New relations between algebraic geometry, information theory and Topological Field Theory are developed. One considers models of databases subject to noise i.e. probability distributions on finite sets, related to exponential families. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Noemie C. Combe

In this paper we present an implementation of a computer algorithm that automatically determines the topological structure of spacetime, using a branched covering space representation. This algorithm is applied to a few simple examples in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Christopher L Duston

Scaffolds are certain tensors arising in the study of association schemes, and have been (implicitly) understood diagrammatically as digraphs with distinguished "root" nodes and with matrix edge weights, often taken from Bose-Mesner…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Xiaoye Liang , Ying-Ying Tan , Hajime Tanaka , Tao Wang

We consider general fermionic quantum field theories with a global finite group symmetry $G$, focusing on the case of 2-dimensions and torus spacetime. The modular transformation properties of the family of partition functions with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Grigoletto , Pavel Putrov

In this paper we complete the classification of spin manifolds admitting parallel spinors, in terms of the Riemannian holonomy groups. More precisely, we show that on a given n-dimensional Riemannian manifold, spin structures with parallel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

Fold maps are smooth maps at each singular point of which it is represented as the product map of a Morse function and the identity map. Round fold maps are, in short, such maps the sets of all singular points of which are embedded…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Naoki Kitazawa

We study certain types of piecewise smooth Lagrangian fibrations of smooth symplectic manifolds, which we call stitched Lagrangian fibrations. We extend the classical theory of action-angle coordinates to these fibrations by encoding the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-13 R. Castano-Bernard , D. Matessi

Many low dimensional spin systems with a dimerized or ladder-like antiferromagnetic exchange coupling have a gapped excitation spectrum with magnetic bound states within the spin gap. For spin ladders with an even number of legs the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Lemmens , M. Fischer , M. Grove , P. H. M. v. Loosdrecht , G. Els , E. Sherman , C. Pinettes , G. Güntherodt

We consider a one-dimensional, time-reversal-invariant system with attractive interactions and spin-orbit coupling. Such a system is gapless due to the strong quantum fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. However, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna Keselman , Erez Berg

In this paper, we present a construction toward a new type of TQFTs at the crossroads of low-dimensional topology, algebraic geometry, physics, and homotopy theory. It assigns TMF-modules to closed 3-manifolds and maps of TMF-modules to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Sergei Gukov , Vyacheslav Krushkal , Lennart Meier , Du Pei

The equations for topological fields in the $4d$ higher spin theory are considered. It is shown that these fields contain a finite number of degrees of freedom that justifies their naming. The issue of construction of gauge invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 P. T. Kirakosiants

We give two presentations for bordisms of $S^2$ in the 3-dimensional oriented bordism category $\operatorname{Cob}(3) $, encoding the algebraic structures on $S^2$. After passing through topological field theories, we define two kinds of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Chris Li

We present the first numerical calculation of the 4D Euclidean spin foam vertex amplitude for vertices with hypercubic combinatorics. Concretely, we compute the amplitude for coherent boundary data peaked on cuboid and frustum shapes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Courtney Allen , Florian Girelli , Sebastian Steinhaus

Topological textures in magnetically ordered materials are important case studies for fundamental research with promising applications in data science. They can also serve as photonic elements to mold electromagnetic fields endowing them…