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The hallmark of two-dimensional chiral topological phases is the existence of anomalous gapless modes at the spatial boundary. Yet, the manifestation of this edge anomaly within the bulk ground-state wavefunction itself remains only…

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We investigate permutations in terms of their cycle structure and descent set. To do this, we generalize the classical bijection of Gessel and Reutenauer to deal with permutations that have some ascending and some descending blocks. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Jacob Steinhardt

This is a survey article for the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, 2nd Edition. Topological defects are described in the context of the 2-dimensional Ising model on the lattice, in 2-dimensional quantum field theory, in topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Nils Carqueville , Michele Del Zotto , Ingo Runkel

Congruences of Fourier coefficients of modular forms have long been an object of central study. By comparison, the arithmetic of other expansions of modular forms, in particular Taylor expansions around points in the upper-half plane, has…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Pavel Guerzhoy , Michael H. Mertens , Larry Rolen

Topological defects (TDs) are crucial for understanding important physical properties of crystalline materials including mechanical failure, ion transport, and two-dimensional melting. This concept has not translated to disordered materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-09 Matteo Baggioli , Michael L. Falk , Walter Kob

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which relates topological properties of a material in the bulk to the presence of robust modes localized on the edge, is at the core of the now mature field of topological wave physics. More recently, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Renaud Cote , Marc Pachebat , Antonin Coutant

P\"oschl-Teller-driven solutions for quantum mechanical fluctuations are triggered off by single scalar field theories obtained through a systematic perturbative procedure for generating deformed defects. The analytical properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 Alex E. Bernardini , Roldao da Rocha

The topological theory of phase transitions was proposed on the basis of different arguments, the most important of which are: a direct evidence of the relation between topology and phase transitions for some exactly solvable models; an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-28 Matteo Gori , Roberto Franzosi , Marco Pettini

In their work, Serre and Swinnerton-Dyer study the congruence properties of the Fourier coefficients of modular forms. We examine similar congruence properties, but for the coefficients of a modified Taylor expansion about a CM point…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Hannah Larson , Geoffrey Smith

A new implementation of stochastic many-body perturbation theory for periodic 2D systems is presented. The method is used to compute quasiparticle excitations in twisted bilayer phosphorene. Excitation energies are studied using stochastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jacob Brooks , Guorong Weng , Stephanie Taylor , Vojtech Vlcek

A periodic lattice distortion that reduces the translational symmetry folds electron bands into a reduced Brillouin zone, leading to band mixing and a tendency to gap formation, as in the Peierls transition in one-dimensional systems.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Santiago Palumbo , Pablo S. Cornaglia , Jorge I. Facio

There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals, and topological defects that represent immutable…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-11 Zhi-Kang Lin , Qiang Wang , Yang Liu , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong , Jian-Hua Jiang

Permutation polynomials over finite fields constitute an active research area and have applications in many areas of science and engineering. In this paper, two conjectures on permutation polynomials proposed recently by Wu and Li [19] are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Jingxue Ma , Gennian Ge

In condensed matter physics and related areas, topological defects play important roles in phase transitions and critical phenomena. Homotopy theory facilitates the classification of such topological defects. After a pedagogic introduction…

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We extend the analysis of Balmer and Gallauer on the tt-geometry of the small derived category of permutation modules for a finite group over a field to the setting of a commutative Noetherian base. In this general context, we provide a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Umesh V Dubey , Juan Omar Gómez

In this article, we introduce a method to extend involutive nondegenerate set-theoretic solutions to the Yang--Baxter equation by means of equivariant mappings to graded modules, thus leading to the notion of a twisted extension.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Carsten Dietzel

Both theoretical and experimental studies of topological phases in non-Hermitian systems have made a remarkable progress in the last few years of research. In this article, we review the key concepts pertaining to topological phases in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Ananya Ghatak , Tanmoy Das

We develop a unified framework to classify topological defects in insulators and superconductors described by spatially modulated Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes Hamiltonians. We consider Hamiltonians H(k,r) that vary slowly with adiabatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane

The criterion of differentiability of functions of quaternion variable is used as the basis of some algebraic field theory. Its necessary consequences are free Maxwell and Yang-Mills equations. The differentiability equations may be…

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