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Motivated by the construction of spectral manifolds in noncommutative geometry, we introduce a higher degree Heisenberg commutation relation involving the Dirac operator and the Feynman slash of scalar fields. This commutation relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Ali H. Chamseddine , Alain Connes , Viatcheslav Mukhanov

We study the operator that corresponds to the measurement of volume, in non-perturbative quantum gravity, and we compute its spectrum. The operator is constructed in the loop representation, via a regularization procedure; it is finite,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Carlo Rovelli , Lee Smolin

Recent advancements in the discipline of quantum algorithms have displayed the importance of the geometry of quantum operators. Given this thrust, this paper develops a rigorous geometric framework to analyze how the Riemannian structure of…

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In this paper we establish the existence of the non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity known as quantum holonomy theory by showing that a Hilbert space representation of the QHD(M) algebra, which is an algebra generated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-18 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup

Let $M$ be a compact oriented three-manifold whose interior is hyperbolic of finite volume. We prove a variation formula for the volume on the variety of representations of $M$ in $\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb C)$. Our proof follows the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Wolfgang Pitsch , Joan Porti

We construct a periodically time-dependent Hamiltonian with a phase transition in the quantum Hall universality class. One spatial dimension can be eliminated by introducing a second incommensurate driving frequency, so that we can study…

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We consider nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, posed on a differential (n+1)-manifold with boundary referred to as a spacetime, and in which the "flux" is defined as a flux field of n-forms depending on a parameter (the unknown…

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The space M_n of all isomorphism classes of n-dimensional Lie algebras over a field k has a natural non-Hausdorff topology, induced from the Segal topology by the action of GL(n). One way of studying this complicated space is by topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 William Gordon Ritter

Over the $(1,n)$-dimensional real superspace, $n>1$, we classify $\mathcal{K}(n)$-invariant binary differential operators acting on the superspaces of weighted densities, where $\mathcal{K}(n)$ is the Lie superalgebra of contact vector…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Mabrouk Ben Ammar , Nizar Ben Fraj , Salem Omri

In this short note, we study the impact of data augmentation on the smoothness of principal components of high-dimensional datasets. Using tools from quantum harmonic analysis, we show that eigenfunctions of operators corresponding to…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Monika Doerfler , Franz Luef , Henry McNulty

The problem of studying the quantum Hall effect on manifolds with nonconstant metric is addressed. The Hamiltonian on a space with hyperbolic metric is determined, and the spectrum and eigenfunctions are calculated in closed form. The…

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We in this paper consider a further generalization of the (optical) holonomic quantum computation proposed by Zanardi and Rasetti (quant-ph/9904011), and reinforced by Fujii (quant-ph/9910069) and Pachos and Chountasis (quant-ph/9912093).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuyuki Fujii

A geometrical approach to quantum computation is presented, where a non-abelian connection is introduced in order to rewrite the evolution operator of an energy degenerate system as a holonomic unitary. For a simple geometrical model we…

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We analyze general structure of N-fold supersymmetry which provides a systematic framework to construct weakly quasi-solvable quantum mechanical systems. Main ingredients of our analysis are dimensional analysis and introduction of an…

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In Loop Quantum Gravity, the quantum action of the volume operator is crucial in understanding quantum dynamics. In this work, we implement a generalized numerical algorithm that can compute the quantum action of the volume operator on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Haida Li , Hongguang Liu

We study essentially bounded quantum random variables and show that the Gelfand spectrum of such a quantum random variable coincides with the hypoconvex hull of its essential range. Moreover, a notion of operator-valued variance is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Douglas Farenick , Michael J. Kozdron , Sarah Plosker

Previous studies on the geometrical properties of the state space of a finite-level quantum system have determined its volume and surface area. Building on this foundation, we derive explicit formulas for two additional intrinsic volume…

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We consider varieties of representations and characters of 2 and 3-dimensional orbifolds in semisimple Lie groups, and we focus on computing their dimension. For hyperbolic 3-orbifolds, we consider the component of the variety of characters…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Joan Porti

The Half-Transform Ansatz (HTA) is a proposed method to solve hyper-geometric equations in Quantum Phase Space by transforming a differential operator to an algebraic variable and including a specific exponential factor in the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Gabriel Nowaskie