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For closed and oriented hyperbolic surfaces, a formula of Witten establishes an equality between two volume forms on the space of representations of the surface in a semisimple Lie group. One of the forms is a Reidemeister torsion, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Michael Heusener , Joan Porti

We study quantum corrections to hypersurfaces of dimension $d+1>2$ embedded in generic higher-dimensional spacetimes. Manifest covariance is maintained throughout the analysis and our methods are valid for arbitrary co-dimension and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Garrett Goon , Scott Melville , Johannes Noller

We present a holomorphic representation of the Jacobi algebra $\mathfrak{h}_n\rtimes \mathfrak{sp}(n,\R)$ by first order differential operators with polynomial coefficients on the manifold $\mathbb{C}^n\times \mathcal{D}_n$. We construct…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Stefan Berceanu

Quantisation on spaces with properties of curvature, multiple connectedness and non orientablility is obtained. The geodesic length spectrum for the Laplacian operator is extended to solve the Schroedinger operator. Homotopy fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

We consider geometric operators, such as the geodesic length and the volume of hypersurfaces, in the context of the Asymptotic Safety scenario for quantum gravity. We discuss the role of these operators from the Asymptotic Safety…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-16 Maximilian Becker , Carlo Pagani

We reconsider differential geometry from the point of view of the quantum theory of non-relativistic spinning particles, which provides examples of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. This enables us to encode geometrical structure in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 J. Froehlich , O. Grandjean , A. Recknagel

The definition of the covariant space-time averaging scheme for the objects (tensors, geometric objects, etc.) on differentiable metric manifolds with a volume n-form, which has been proposed for the formulation of macroscopic gravity, is…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Marc Mars , Roustam M. Zalaletdinov

Volume operators measuring the total volume of space in a loop quantum theory of cosmological models are constructed. In the case of models with rotational symmetry an investigation of the Higgs constraint imposed on the reduced connection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Martin Bojowald

Within the context of loop quantum gravity there are several operators which measure geometry quantities. This work examines two of these operators, volume and angle, to study quantum geometry at a single spin network vertex - ``an atom of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Seth A. Major , Michael D. Seifert

This paper develops a framework for the Hamiltonian quantization of complex Chern-Simons theory with gauge group $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ at an even level $k\in\mathbb{Z}_+$. Our approach follows the procedure of combinatorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-25 Muxin Han

We extend the Neumann's methods and give the explicit formulae for the volume and the Chern-Simons invariant for hyperbolic alternating knot orbifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Ji-Young Ham , Joongul Lee

Let $\Gamma$ be a nonuniform lattice acting on real hyperbolic n-space. We show that in dimension greater than or equal to 4, the volume of a representation is constant on each connected component of the representation variety of $\Gamma$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Sungwoon Kim , Inkang Kim

In this article we propose a new construction of the spatial scalar curvature operator in (1+3)-dimensional LQG based on the twisted geometry. The starting point of the construction is to express the holonomy of the spin connection on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-02 Gaoping Long , Hongguang Liu

We develop a universal distributional calculus for regulated volumes of metrics that are singular along hypersurfaces. When the hypersurface is a conformal infinity we give simple integrated distribution expressions for the divergences and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-03 A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

Quantum computing has been increasingly applied in nuclear physics. In this work, we combine quantum computing with the complex scaling method to address the resonance problem. Due to the non-Hermiticity introduced by complex scaling,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Hantao Zhang , Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren

We provide two algorithms for computing the volume of a convex polytope with half-space representation {x>=0; Ax <=b} for some (m,n) matrix A and some m-vector b. Both algorithms have a O(n^m) computational complexity which makes them…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 J. B. Lasserre , E. S. Zeron

Integral transforms are invaluable mathematical tools to map functions into spaces where they are easier to characterize. We introduce the hyperdimensional transform as a new kind of integral transform. It converts square-integrable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Pieter Dewulf , Michiel Stock , Bernard De Baets

To formulate the universal constraints of quantum statistics data of generic long-range entangled quantum systems, we introduce the geometric-topology surgery theory on spacetime manifolds where quantum systems reside, cutting and gluing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen , Shing-Tung Yau

We propose a method to constrain the scaling dimension of the operators of the strongly interacting systems (SIS) using the holographic setup. %where the (d+1)-dimensional black hole is used to describe the d-dimensional SIS. We demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 Yoon-Seok Choun , Ki-Seok Kim , Sang-Jin Sin

We argue that the holographic formula relating entanglement entropy and the area of a minimal surface is the key to define the area of surfaces in the (emergent) spacetime from the dual theory on the boundary. So we promote the entropy/area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-14 Marcelo Botta Cantcheff