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We review properties of lower-dimension vacuum defects observed in lattice simulations of SU(2) Yang-Mills theories. One- and two-dimensional defects are associated with ultraviolet divergent action. The action is the same divergent as in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Zakharov

Discretized nonabelian gauge theories living on finite group spaces G are defined by means of a geometric action \int Tr F \wedge *F. This technique is extended to obtain discrete versions of the Born-Infeld action. The discretizations are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Aschieri , L. Castellani , A. P. Isaev

The absence of Birkhoff's theorem in effective quantum gravity models leads to a fundamental ambiguity in the vacuum sector, where a priori no unique vacuum solution exists. As a result, phenomenological investigations of the physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Kristina Giesel , Hongguang Liu

We develop an obstruction theory for Hirsch extensions of cbba's with twisted coefficients. This leads to a variety of applications, including a structural theorem for minimal cbba's, a construction of relative minimal models with twisted…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jiahao Hu

A particular family of Discrete Time Quantum Walks (DTQWs) simulating fermion propagation in $2$D curved space-time is revisited. Usual continuous covariant derivatives and spin-connections are generalized into discrete covariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Fabrice Debbasch

A quantum deformation of 3-dimensional lattice gauge theory is defined by applying the Reshetikhin-Turaev functor to a Heegaard diagram associated to a given cell complex. In the root-of-unity case, the construction is carried out with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 D. V. Boulatov

Topological duality defects arise as codimension one generalized symmetry operators in quantum field theories (QFTs) with a duality symmetry. Recent investigations have shown that in the case of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super Yang-Mills (SYM)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hubner , Ethan Torres , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

Twisted K-theory on a manifold X, with twisting in the 3rd integral cohomology, is dis- cussed in the case when X is a product of a circle T and a manifold M. The twist is assumed to be decomposable as a cup product of the basic integral…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Antti J. Harju , Jouko Mickelsson

Geometric quantization of 2+1 dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory is studied with focusing on finite large scales. It is previously shown that (Yildirim, 2015, Int. J. Mod. Phys A, 30(7), 1550034), topologically massive Yang-Mills theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 Tuna Yildirim

We present a complex matrix gauge model defined on an arbitrary two-dimensional orientable lattice. We rewrite the model's partition function in terms of a sum over representations of the group U(N). The model solves the general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Ivan K. Kostov , Matthias Staudacher , Thomas Wynter

In this paper, we study the weak compactness of the set of conformal metrics in any Riemann surface without boundary whose Calabi energy and area are uniformly bounded. We prove that for any sequence of such metrics, there alwasy exists a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Xiuxiong Chen

We use a reformulation of topological group field theories in 3 and 4 dimensions in terms of variables associated to vertices, in 3d, and edges, in 4d, to obtain new scaling bounds for their Feynman amplitudes. In both 3 and 4 dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-29 Sylvain Carrozza , Daniele Oriti

In the presence of a D-brane a string theory develops a new subsector. We show that for curved D-branes the corresponding sector is a (partially twisted) topological field theory. We use this result to compute the degeneracy of 2-branes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Bershadsky , V. Sadov , C. Vafa

Four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity theories become rigid in gravity-decoupling limits. We study this effect for type II string compactifications on general Calabi--Yau manifolds, focusing on vector-multiplet trajectories whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Alberto Castellano , Fernando Marchesano , Lorenzo Paoloni

The purpose of this paper is to give a twisted version of the Eynard-Orantin topological recursion by a 2D Topological Quantum Field Theory. We define a kernel for a 2D TQFT and use an algebraic definition for a topological recursion to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Daniel Hernández Serrano

In this paper we develop a bubble tree structure for a degenerating class of Riemannian metrics satisfying some global conformal bounds on compact manifolds of dimension 4. Applying the bubble tree structure, we establish a gap theorem, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alice Chang , Jie Qing , Paul Yang

We introduce a class of 2D lattice models that describe the dynamics of intertwiners, or, in a condensed matter interpretation, the fusion and splitting of anyons. We identify different families and instances of triangulation invariant,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-08 Bianca Dittrich , Wojciech Kaminski

We study a topological field theory describing confining phases of gauge theories in four dimensions. It can be formulated on a lattice using a discrete 2-form field talking values in a finite abelian group (the magnetic gauge group). We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-23 Anton Kapustin , Ryan Thorngren

A new approach is suggested to quantum differential calculus on certain quantum varieties. It consists in replacing quantum de Rham complexes with differentials satisfying Leibniz rule by those which are in a sense close to Koszul complexes…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-11-26 P. Akueson , D. Gurevich

Circuit complexity for two-dimensional topological quantum field theories (2D TQFT) was defined by Couch, Fan, and Shashi in [12]. In this paper, we study complexity for the 2D TQFT given by quantum cohomology of compact symplectic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Xiaobo Liu , Chongyu Wang