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The homology cobordism group of homology cylinders is a generalization of the mapping class group and the string link concordance group. We study this group and its filtrations by subgroups by developing new homomorphisms. First, we define…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Minkyoung Song

Techniques of gauge theory are used to define and compute an invariant of certain diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds. The invariant vanishes for any diffeomorphism which is smoothly isotopic to the identity. As an application, we give the first…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Ruberman

We further sharpen higher type adjunction inequalities of P. Ozsv\'ath and Z. Szab\'o on a 4-manifold $M$ with a nonzero Seiberg-Witten invariant for a Spin$^c$ structure $\frak{s}$, when an embedded surface $\Sigma\subset M$ satisfies…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Chanyoung Sung

This note is mostly an expository survey, centered on the topology of complements of hyperplane arrangements, their Milnor fibrations, and their boundary structures. An important tool in this study is provided by the degree 1 resonance and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Alexandru I. Suciu

Recent progress in holographic correspondence uncovered remarkable relations between key characteristics of the theories on both sides of duality and certain integrable models. In this note we revisit the problem of the role of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 R. C. Rashkov

In this thesis new objects to the existing set of invariants of Lie algebras are added. These invariant characteristics are capable of describing the nilpotent parametric continuum of Lie algebras. The properties of these invariants, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jiří Hrivnák

Magnetic frustrated systems have resurged in spintronics as optimal candidates for hosting three dimensional topological solitons, such as Shankar skyrmions and 4$\pi$-vortices, and other singular topological defects. These topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Ricardo Zarzuela , Jairo Sinova

We discuss an object from algebraic topology, Hopf invariant, and reinterpret it in terms of the $\phi$-mapping topological current theory. The main purpose in this paper is to present a new theoretical framework which can directly give the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-15 Ji-rong Ren , Ran Li , Yi-shi Duan

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in recent years. However, identifying a universal topological invariant capable of characterizing higher-order topology remains challenging. Here, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Long Zhang , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Jian-Jun Liu , Ying-Tao Zhang

We construct a class of topological field theories with Wess-Zumino term in spacetime dimensions $\ge 2$ whose target space has a geometrical structure that suitably generalizes Poisson or twisted Poisson manifolds. Assuming a field content…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis

In this paper new numerical invariants of structurally unstable vector fields in the plane are found. One of the main tools is an improved asymptotics of sparkling saddle connections that occur when a separatrix loop of a hyperbolic saddle…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yulij Ilyashenko , Stanislav Minkov , Ivan Shilin

Recently, a new family of symmetry-protected higher-order topological insulators has been proposed and was shown to host lower-dimensional boundary states. However, with the existence of the strong disorder in the bulk, the crystal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

The subject of this work is a three-dimensional topological field theory with a non-semisimple group of gauge symmetry with observables consisting in the holonomies of connections around three closed loops. The connections are a linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-25 Franco Ferrari , Marcin R. Piatek , Yani Zhao

Milnor's $\bar{\mu}$-invariants of links in the $3$-sphere $S^3$ vanish on any link concordant to a boundary link. In particular, they are trivial on any knot in $S^3$. Here we consider knots in thickened surfaces $\Sigma \times [0,1]$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Micah Chrisman

We prove that a Casson tower of height 4 contains a flat embedded disc bounded by the attaching circle, and we prove disc embedding results for height 2 and 3 Casson towers which are embedded into a 4-manifold, with some additional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Jae Choon Cha , Mark Powell

We study the multi-gap topology of the periodic spectra of Wilson loop operators (WLOs) in mirror symmetric insulators. We develop two topological invariants each associated with a mirror-invariant gap in the Wilson loop spectrum. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Penghao Zhu , Taylor L. Hughes , Xiao-Qi Sun

Persistent Topology studies topological features of shapes by analyzing the lower level sets of suitable functions, called filtering functions, and encoding the arising information in a parameterized version of the Betti numbers, i.e. the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-05 Andrea Cerri , Patrizio Frosini

This paper investigates model-order reduction methods for geometrically nonlinear structures. The parametrisation method of invariant manifolds is used and adapted to the case of mechanical systems expressed in the physical basis, so that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Alessandra Vizzaccaro , Andrea Opreni , Loïc Salles , Attilio Frangi , Cyril Touzé

We develop obstructions to a knot K in the 3-sphere bounding a smooth punctured Klein bottle in the 4-ball. The simplest of these is based on the linking form of the 2-fold branched cover of the 3-sphere branched over K. Stronger…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Patrick M. Gilmer , Charles Livingston

We describe recent achievements in the theory of weight systems, which are functions on chord diagrams satisfying so-called $4$-term relations. Our main attention is devoted to constructions of weight systems. The two main sources of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Maxim Kazaryan , Sergei Lando