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We compute eta invariants of various Dirac type operators on circle bundles over Riemann surfaces via two approaches: an adiabatic approach based on the results of Bismut-Cheeger-Dai and a direct elementary one. These results, coupled with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Liviu I. Nicolaescu

Discrete vector bundles are important in Physics and recently found remarkable applications in Computer Graphics. This article approaches discrete bundles from the viewpoint of Discrete Differential Geometry, including a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Felix Knöppel , Ulrich Pinkall

We formulate a conjectural relation between the category of line defects in topologically twisted 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric quantum field theories and categories of modules for Vertex Operator Algebras of boundary local operators for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-12 Kevin Costello , Thomas Creutzig , Davide Gaiotto

We conjecture a formula for the Schur index of N=2 four-dimensional theories in the presence of boundary conditions and/or line defects, in terms of the low-energy effective Seiberg-Witten description of the system together with massive BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-29 Clay Cordova , Davide Gaiotto , Shu-Heng Shao

We examine relationships between various quantization schemes for an electrically charged particle in the field of a magnetic monopole. Quantization maps are defined in invariant geometrical terms, appropriate to the case of nontrivial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Michael A. Soloviev

We present the simplest non-abelian version of Seiberg-Witten theory: Quaternionic monopoles. These monopoles are associated with Spin^h(4)-structures on 4-manifolds and form finite-dimensional moduli spaces. On a Kahler surface the…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Ch. Okonek , A. Teleman

We prove a compatibility theorem between the Stark conjecture and the Harris-Venkatesh conjecture for imaginary dihedral modular forms of weight $1$. The key technical input is a general two-variable $\mathrm{PGL}_2$ Siegel-Weil formula…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Robin Zhang

This paper studies the behavior of sequences of solutions to Seiberg-Witten like equations for a pair consisting of a Hermitian connection on a line bundle over a 4-dimensional manifold and a section of the self-dual spinor bundle of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Clifford Henry Taubes

We introduce a notion of quasi-lisse vertex algebras, which generalizes admissible affine vertex algebras. We show that the normalized character of an ordinary module over a quasi-lisse vertex operator algebra has a modular invariance…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Tomoyuki Arakawa , Kazuya Kawasetsu

We study the Witten--Reshetikhin--Turaev SU(2) invariant for the Seifert manifold with 4-singular fibers. We define the Eichler integrals of the modular forms with half-integral weight, and we show that the invariant is rewritten as a sum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuhiro Hikami

We study the Wilson line defect half-indices of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $SU(N)$ Chern-Simons theories of level $k\le -N$ with Neumann boundary conditions for the gauge fields, together with 2d Fermi multiplets and fundamental 3d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-07 Tadashi Okazaki , Douglas J. Smith

In this paper we continue the study of the superconformal index of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ in the presence of surface defects. Our main result is the construction of an algebra of difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 Mathew Bullimore , Martin Fluder , Lotte Hollands , Paul Richmond

Eigenvalue interlacing is a useful tool in linear algebra and spectral analysis. In its simplest form, the interlacing inequality states that a rank-one positive perturbation shifts each eigenvalue up, but not further than the next…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Gregory Berkolaiko , Graham Cox , Yuri Latushkin , Selim Sukhtaiev

An odd Fredholm module for a given invertible operator on a Hilbert space is specified by an unbounded so-called Dirac operator with compact resolvent and bounded commutator with the given invertible. Associated to this is an index pairing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Terry Loring , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

The Chern classes of a K-theory class which is represented by a vector bundle with connection admit refinements to Cheeger-Simons classes in Deligne cohomology. In the present paper we consider similar refinements in the case where the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 U. Bunke

We review the concepts of the index of a Fredholm operator, the spectral flow of a curve of self-adjoint Fredholm operators, the Maslov index of a curve of Lagrangian subspaces in symplectic Hilbert space, and the eta invariant of operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-29 David Bleecker , Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek

We develop the method of similar operators to study the spectral properties of unbounded perturbed linear operators that can be represented by matrices of various kinds. The class of operators under consideration includes various…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Anatoly G. Baskakov , Ilya A. Krishtal , Natalia B. Uskova

We notice that for any positive integer $k$, the set of $(1,2)$-specialized characters of level $k$ standard $A_{1}^{(1)}$-modules is the same as the set of rescaled graded dimensions of the subspaces of level $2k+1$ standard…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julius Borcea

This is a review article exploring similarities between moduli of quiver representations and moduli of vector bundles over a smooth projective curve. After describing the basic properties of these moduli problems and constructions of their…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Victoria Hoskins

In this paper, we employ the framework of localization algebras to compute the equivariant K-homology class of the Euler characteristic operator, a central object in studying equivariant index theory on manifolds. This approach provides a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Hongzhi Liu , Hang Wang , Zijing Wang , Shaocong Xiang