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Employing the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation it is demonstrated straightforwardly that the first and second Chern numbers are equal to the coefficients of the 2+1 and 4+1 dimensional Chern-Simons actions which are generated by the massive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 O. F. Dayi , M. Elbistan , E. Yunt

We propose an alternative formulation of the $Z_2$ topological index for quantum spin Hall systems and band insulators when time reversal invariance is not broken. The index is expressed in terms of the Chern numbers of the bands of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 Rahul Roy

We calculate the superconformal indices of recently discovered three-dimensional N=4,5 Chern-Simons-matter theories and compare them with the corresponding indices of supergravity on AdS4 times orbifolds of S7. We find perfect agreement in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-31 Jaehyung Choi , Sangmin Lee , Jaewon Song

We study the topological entanglement negativity between two spatial regions in (2+1)-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theories by using the replica trick and the surgery method. For a bipartitioned or tripartitioned spatial manifold, we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-06 Xueda Wen , Po-Yao Chang , Shinsei Ryu

A U(N) Chern-Simons theory on noncommutative $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ is constructed as a $\q$-deformed field theory. The model is characterized by two symmetries: the BRST-symmetry and the topological linear vector supersymmetry. It is shown that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Bichl , J. M. Grimstrup , V. Putz , M. Schweda

We introduce an anti-symmetric metric into a 3-algebra and call it a symplectic 3-algebra. The N=6, Sp(2N) X U(1) superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theory with SU(4) R-symmetry in three dimensions is constructed by specifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Fa-Min Chen , Yong-Shi Wu

We derive an index theorem for the Dirac operator in the background of various topological excitations on an R^3 \times S^1 geometry. The index theorem provides more refined data than the APS index for an instanton on R^4 and reproduces it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Erich Poppitz , Mithat Unsal

In recent years, we have established the iteration theory of the index for symplectic matrix paths and applied it to periodic solution problems of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. This paper is a survey on these results.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yiming Long

M5-branes on an associative three-cycle $M_3$ in a $G_2$-holonomy manifold give rise to a 3d $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theory, $T_{\mathcal{N}=1} [M_3]$. We propose an $\mathcal{N}=1$ 3d-3d correspondence, based on two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-02 Julius Eckhard , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Jin-Mann Wong

To understand what does Chern-Simons with compact Lie group(does not like Dijkgraaf-Witten model with finite group in 3d) attach to a point, we first give a construction of Topological Quantum Field Theory(TQFT) via Chern-Simons theory in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Yifan Zhang , Ke Wu

Three dimensional Euclidean pure gravity with a negative cosmological constant can be formulated in terms of the Chern-Simons theory, classically. This theory can be written in a supersymmetric way by introducing auxiliary gauginos and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-21 Norihiro Iizuka , Akinori Tanaka , Seiji Terashima

This work explores the topological properties of altermagnets, a novel class of collinear magnetic materials. We employ equivariant K-theory of magnetic groups and Hamiltonian models to formulate a robust $C^z_4 \mathbb{T}$ topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Higinio Serrano , Bernardo Uribe

We calculate the superconformal index for N=6 Chern-Simons-matter theory with gauge group U(N) X U(N) at arbitrary allowed value of the Chern-Simons level k. The calculation is based on localization of the path integral for the index. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-17 Seok Kim

We study a family of pseudodifferential operators (quantum Hamiltonians) on $L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{n};\mathbb{C}^{d})$ whose spectrum exhibits two energy bands exchanging a finite number of eigenvalues. We show that this number coincides with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Léon Monnier , Frédéric Faure

We review derivation of superconformal indices by means of supersymmetric localization and spherical harmonic expansion for 3d N=2, 4d N=1, and 6d N=(1,0) supersymmetric gauge theories. We demonstrate calculation of indices for vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 Yosuke Imamura

We construct and analyse holographic duals to a class of four-dimensional N = 1 SU($N_c$) SQCD-like theories compactified on a circle with an R-symmetry twist. The setup originates from type IIB backgrounds previously proposed as duals to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Niall T. Macpherson , Paul Merrikin , Carlos Nunez , Ricardo Stuardo

We study the superconformal index $Z(q)$ of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories in Cardy-like limits $\beta = \log \tfrac{1}{q} \to 0^+$, extending techniques recently developed in the 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ context. For theories with vectorlike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-24 Arash Arabi Ardehali , Mathieu Boisvert , Shehab Hossam Fadda

The breaking and enforcing of symmetries is a crucial ingredient in designing topologically robust materials. While magnetic fields can break time-reversal symmetry to create Chern insulators in electronic and microwave systems, at optical…

One of the most intriguing aspects of Chern-Simons-type topological models is the fractional statistics of point particles which has been shown essential for our understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effects. Furthermore these ideas…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 C. A. S. Almeida

The invariant integration method for Chern-Simons theory for gauge group SU(2) and manifold \Gamma\H^3 is verified in the semiclassical approximation. The semiclassical limit for the partition function associated with a connected sum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Bytsenko , A. E. Goncalves , W. da Cruz