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This thesis explores Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on curved spacetimes using a geometric Hamiltonian approach to the Schr\"odinger-like representation. In particular it studies the theory of the scalar field described through its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 David Martínez-Crespo

Cohen and Glashow introduced the notion of very special relativity as viable space-time symmetry of elementary particle physics. As a natural generalization of their idea, we study the subgroup of the conformal group, dubbed very special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Yu Nakayama

In these Notes, a comprehensive description of the universal fractal geometry of conformally-invariant scaling curves or interfaces, in the plane or half-plane, is given. The present approach focuses on deriving critical exponents…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertrand Duplantier

We construct topological recursion relations (TRR's) at higher genera $g\ge2$ for general 2-dimensional topological field theories coupled to gravity. These TRR's when combined with Virasoro conditions enable one to determine the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tohru Eguchi , Chuan-Sheng Xiong

We present a unified approach to holomorphic anomaly equations and some well-known quantum spectral curves. We develop a formalism of abstract quantum field theory based on the diagrammatics of the Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Zhiyuan Wang , Jian Zhou

We study fermionic conformal field theories on surfaces with spin structure in the presence of boundaries, defects, and interfaces. We obtain the relevant crossing relations, taking particular care with parity signs and signs arising from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Ingo Runkel , Gerard M. T. Watts

A noncommutative-geometric formalism of framed principal bundles is sketched, in a special case of quantum bundles (over quantum spaces) possessing classical structure groups. Quantum counterparts of torsion operators and Levi-Civita type…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Mico Durdevic

Conformal truncation is a powerful numerical method for solving generic strongly-coupled quantum field theories based on purely field-theoretic technics without introducing lattice regularization. We discuss possible speedups for performing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-04 Junyu Liu , Yuan Xin

Exact solution to many problems in mathematical physics and quantum field theory often can be expressed in terms of an algebraic curve equipped with a meromorphic differential. Typically, the geometry of the curve can be seen most clearly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-13 Sergei Gukov , Piotr Sułkowski

In this work, we study the simplest example of the landscape of conformal field theories: one-dimensional CFTs with finite-dimensional state space. Following the definition of quantum field theory given by G. Segal, we formulate the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Maxim Gritskov , Saveliy Timchenko

We review various aspects of two dimensional conformal field theories paying close attention to the algebraic structures that intervene. We provide a compact description regarding the appearance of a chiral algebra as the symmetry algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-29 Joaquin Liniado

We review a recently proposed SuperGeometric (SG) approach to Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) that allow for scalar-fermion field transformations in a manifestly reparameterisation covariant manner. By adopting natural choices for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-23 Viola Gattus , Apostolos Pilaftsis

Just as D-brane charge of Type IIA and Type IIB superstrings is classified, respectively, by K^1(X) and K(X), Ramond-Ramond fields in these theories are classified, respectively, by K(X) and K^1(X). By analyzing a recent proposal for how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Gregory Moore , Edward Witten

Some stochastic evolutions of conformal maps can be described by SLE and may be linked to conformal field theory via stochastic differential equations and singular vectors in highest-weight modules of the Virasoro algebra. Here we discuss…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-23 Jorgen Rasmussen

A theoretical study is made of conformal factors in certain types of physical theories based on classical differential geometry. Analysis of quantum versions of Weyl's theory suggest that similar field equations should be available in four,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel C. Galehouse

This thesis describes a new approach to conformal field theory. This approach combines the method of coadjoint orbits with resolutions and chiral vertex operators to give a construction of the correlation functions of conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Washington Taylor

In this paper we analyze supergeometric locally covariant quantum field theories. We develop suitable categories SLoc of super-Cartan supermanifolds, which generalize Lorentz manifolds in ordinary quantum field theory, and show that,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Thomas-Paul Hack , Florian Hanisch , Alexander Schenkel

One of the important aspects in recent trends in complex analysis has been the increasing degree of cross-fertilization between the latter and mathematical physics with great benefits to both subjects. Contour dynamics in the complex plane…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 Irina Markina , Alexander Vasil'ev

Some mathematical questions relating to Coset Conformal Field Theories (CFT) are considered in the framework of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory as developed previously by us. We consider the issue of fixed point resolution in the diagonal…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xu

This is an invited contribution to the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. We review the following algebraic structures which appear in two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT): The symmetries of two-dimensional…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert , Simon Wood , Yang Yang