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The problem of constructing a quantum theory of gravity has been tackled with very different strategies, most of which relying on the interplay between ideas from physics and from advanced mathematics. On the mathematical side, a central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Roberto De Pietri , Carlo Petronio

An arbitrary Feynman graph for string field theory interactions is analysed and the homeomorphism type of the corresponding world sheet surface is completely determined even in the non-orientable cases. Algorithms are found to mechanically…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2009-10-22 Subhashis Nag , Parameswaran Sankaran

A simple model for the formation of the polymer-enzyme conjugates has been proposed and described using corresponding extension of the Wertheim's first-order thermodynamic perturbation theory (TPT1) for the system of associating chain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-12 Halyna Butovych , Yurij V. Kalyuzhnyi , Taras Patsahan , Jaroslav Ilnytskyi

We analyze the inherent symmetries associated to the non-Abelian topological BF theory from the geometric and covariant perspectives of the Lagrangian and the multisymplectic formalisms. At the Lagrangian level, we classify the symmetries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Alberto Molgado , Ángel Rodríguez-López

Lattice-field calculations are performed on a Gaussian polymer chain confined to move within the region defined by two fused spheres. The results of the calculations are in accord with recent experimental measurements and computer…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Tsonchev , R. D. Coalson

We study the dual equivalence between the nonlinear generalization of the self-dual ($NSD_{B\wedge F}$) and the topologically massive $B\wedge F$ models with particular emphasis on the nonlinear electrodynamics proposed by Born and Infeld.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 R. Menezes , J. R. S. Nascimento , R. F. Ribeiro , C. Wotzasek

We perform numerical simulations of isolated, partially active polymers, driven out-of-equilibrium by a fraction of their monomers. We show that, if the active beads are all gathered in a contiguous block, the position of the section along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-04 Marin Vatin , Sumanta Kundu , Emanuele Locatelli

A well-defined local non-Abelian gauge connection involving a rank-p gauge B-field was introduced a decade ago. This was achieved by introducing doublet groups and doublet-assembled connections that can act on a doublet of matter fields,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Botta Cantcheff , J. A. Helayel-Neto

We study a two-matrix toy model with a BFSS-like interaction term using the collective field formalism. The main technical simplification is obtained by gauge-fixing first, and integrating out the off-diagonal elements, before changing to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Robert Brandenberger , Keshav Dasgupta , Yue Lei , Julia Pasiecznik

This paper presents a novel parametrization approach for aeroelastic systems utilizing Koopman theory, specifically leveraging the Koopman Bilinear Form (KBF) model. To address the limitations of linear parametric dependence in the KBF…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-22 Jiwoo Song , Daning Huang

We describe how to construct a spanning set of linearly-independent, automatically orthogonal colour tensors for scattering amplitudes involving coloured particles transforming under arbitrary representations of any gauge theory, sufficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Michael Plesser , Cristian Vergu

By considering specific limits in the gauge coupling constant of pure Yang--Mills dynamics, it is shown how there exist topological quantum field theory sectors in such systems defining nonperturbative topological configurations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Govaerts

In dimensions 3 or larger, it is a classical fact that the directed polymer model has two phases: Brownian behavior at high temperature, and non-Brownian behavior at low temperature. We consider the response of the polymer to an external…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Arjun Krishnan , Sevak Mkrtchyan , Scott Neville

I work on a set of Feynman rules that were derived in order to incorporate the constraint of Gauss's law in the perturbation expansion of gauge field theories and calculate the interaction energy of two static sources. The constraint is…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Dimitrios Metaxas

We extend classical Flory-Rehner theory for the expansion and compression of porous materials such as cross-linked polymer networks. The theory includes volume exclusion, affinity with the solvent, and finite stretching of the polymer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 P. M. Biesheuvel , H. Fan , M. Elimelech

Besides the plenty of applications of graphene allotropes in condensed matter and nanotechnology, we argue that graphene sheets might be engineered to support room-temperature topological quantum processing of information. The argument is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Annalisa Marzuoli , Giandomenico Palumbo

We present a braided circuit topology framework for investigating topology and structural phase transitions in aggregates of semiflexible polymers. In the conventional approach to circuit topology, which specifically applies to single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Jonas Berx , Alireza Mashaghi

We study a field theory formulation of a fluid mechanical model. We implement the Hamiltonian formalism by using the BFFT conjecture in order to build a gauge invariant fluid field theory. We also generalize previous known classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. P. Natividade , H. Boschi-Filho

We analyze the motion of individual beads of a polymer chain using a discrete version of De Gennes' reptation model that describes the motion of a polymer through an ordered lattice of obstacles. The motion within the tube can be evaluated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 U. Ebert , L. Schäfer , A. Baumgärtner

This review describes the development and applications of multi-chain coarse-grained simulations for entangled polymer dynamics. The mean-field tube model has long served as the standard paradigm for describing the many-body entanglement…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Yuichi Masubuchi