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We propose an approach to formulating string theory in a curved spacetime, which is based on the connection between the states of the WZW model for the isometry group of a background spacetime metric and the representations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mikovic

We use mirror symmetry, quantum geometry and modularity properties of elliptic curves to calculate the refined free energies in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit on non-compact toric Calabi-Yau manifolds, based on del Pezzo surfaces. Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Min-xin Huang , Albrecht Klemm , Jonas Reuter , Marc Schiereck

Recently, an exact description of instanton corrections to the moduli spaces of 4d N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories compactified on a circle and Calabi-Yau compactifications of Type II superstring theories was found. The equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-12 Sergei Alexandrov , Philippe Roche

Convergence rates in spectral regularization methods quantify the approximation error in inverse problems as a function of the noise level or the number of sampling points. Classical strong convergence rate results typically rely on source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Sabrina Guastavino , Gabriele Santin , Francesco Marchetti , Federico Benvenuto

Scattering of fundamental states of type IIB supergravity and superstring theory is discussed at low orders in perturbation theory in the background of a D-instanton. The integration over fermionic zero modes in both the low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael B. Green , Michael Gutperle

I review the appearance of classical integrable systems as an effective tool for the description of non-perturbative exact results in quantum string and gauge theories. Various aspects of this relation: spectral curves, action-angle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Marshakov

In this talk we discuss the quantisation of a class of string cosmology models characterised by scale factor duality invariance. The amplitudes for the full set of classically allowed and forbidden transitions are computed by applying the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Cavaglia` , C. Ungarelli

We study the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum of a random matrix where a non-linearity is applied entry-wise to a Wigner matrix perturbed by a rank-one spike with independent and identically distributed entries. In this setting, we show…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Alice Guionnet , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala , Pierre Mergny , Lenka Zdeborová

The general space-time evolution of the scattering of an incident acoustic plane wave pulse by an arbitrary configuration of targets is treated by employing a recently developed non-singular boundary integral method to solve the Helmholtz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Evert Klaseboer , Shahrokh Sepehrirahnama , Derek Y. C. Chan

In this work we deal with the spacetime shaped by a straight cosmic string, emerging from local gauge theories, in the braneworld gravity context. We search for physical consequences of string features due to the modified gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 M. C. B. Abdalla , P. F. Carlesso , J. M. Hoff da Silva

The problem of a massive elastic string depinning from a linear defect under the action of a small driving force is considered. To exponential accuracy the decay rate is calculated with the help of the instanton method; then, fluctuations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Mikhail A. Skvortsov

Precision measurement of the scalar perturbation spectral index, n_s, from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe temperature angular power spectrum requires the subtraction of unresolved point source power. Here we reconsider this issue.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. M. Huffenberger , H. K. Eriksen , F. K. Hansen , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski

Lipkin model of arbitrary particle-number N is studied in terms of exact differential-operator representation of spin-operators from which we obtain the low-lying energy spectrum with the instanton method of quantum tunneling. Our new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gang Chen , J. -Q. Liang

We use exact WKB analysis to derive some concrete formulae in singular quantum perturbation theory, for Schr\"odinger eigenvalue problems on the real line with polynomial potentials of the form $(q^M + g q^N)$, where $N>M>0$ even, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 André Voros

The topological string/spectral theory correspondence establishes a precise, non-perturbative duality between topological strings on local Calabi-Yau threefolds and the spectral theory of quantized mirror curves. While this duality has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Matijn François , Alba Grassi

The WKB approximation plays an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics and various important results have been obtained from it. In this paper, we introduce another method, {\it the so-called uniform asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Bao-Fei Li , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

The quantum symmetry of many \LG\ orbifolds appears to be broken by Yang-Mills instantons. However, isolated Yang-Mills instantons are not solutions of string theory: They must be accompanied by gauge anti-instantons, gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Jacques Distler , Shamit Kachru

We analyze the frequency spectrum of Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) using Minkowski sums, which yields a compact algebraic description and permits explicit computation. Using this description, we prove several maximality results for broad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Patrick Holzer , Ivica Turkalj

Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the modifications of the power spectrum of primordial fluctuations caused by quantum cosmology effects. The origin of these modifications are corrections to the Mukhanov-Sasaki equations that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Laura Castelló Gomar , Mercedes Martín-Benito , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

Instanton methods, in which imaginary-time evolution gives the tunneling rate, have been widely used for studying quantum tunneling in various contexts. Nevertheless, how accurate instanton methods are for the problems of macroscopic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-16 Ippei Danshita , Anatoli Polkovnikov