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We study algebraic structures ($L_\infty$ and $A_\infty$-algebras) introduced by Gaiotto, Moore and Witten in their recent work devoted to certain supersymmetric 2-dimensional massive field theories. We show that such structures can be…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Mikhail Kapranov , Maxim Kontsevich , Yan Soibelman

We analyze the gauge structure of a recently proposed superconformal field theory in six dimensions. We find that this structure amounts to a weak Courant-Dorfman algebra, which, in turn, can be interpreted as a strong homotopy Lie algebra.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-27 Sam Palmer , Christian Saemann

We construct a global geometric model for complex analytic equivariant elliptic cohomology for all compact Lie groups. Cocycles are specified by functions on the space of fields of the two-dimensional sigma model with background gauge…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Daniel Berwick-Evans , Arnav Tripathy

Double Field Theory (DFT) is a proposal to incorporate T-duality, a distinctive symmetry of string theory, as a symmetry of a field theory defined on a double configuration space. The aim of this review is to provide a pedagogical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-13 Gerardo Aldazabal , Diego Marques , Carmen Nunez

We introduce generalizations of global equivariant spectra which encode globally equivariant cohomology theories equipped with additional transfers, such as the deflation maps present in equivariant topological $K$-theory. We call these…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-19 William Balderrama , Jack Morgan Davies , Sil Linskens

A method of exact all-order summation of leading infrared logarithms in two dimensional massless $\Phi^4$-type non-renormalizable effective field theories (EFTs) is developed. The method is applied to the ${\rm O}(N)$-symmetric EFT, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-05 Jonas Linzen , Maxim V. Polyakov , Kirill M. Semenov-Tian-Shansky , Nika S. Sokolova

We propose an extension of ergodic theory which focuses on the identification of ergodicity in terms of the uniqueness of the invariant measure. We first explain the concept for the doubling maps, which can be analyzed using Fourier…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Haakan Hedenmalm , Alfonso Montes-Rodriguez

This paper gives a uniform-theoretic refinement of classical homotopy theory. Both cubical sets (with connections) and uniform spaces admit classes of weak equivalences, special cases of classical weak equivalences, appropriate for the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Sanjeevi Krishnan , Crichton Ogle

We review how modular categories, and commutative and non-commutative Frobenius algebras arise in rational conformal field theory. For Euclidean CFT we use an approach based on sewing of surfaces, and in the Minkowskian case we describe CFT…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Liang Kong , Ingo Runkel

We explicitly construct an SO(2)-action on a skeletal version of the 2-dimensional framed bordism bicategory. By the 2-dimensional Cobordism Hypothesis for framed manifolds, we obtain an SO(2)-action on the core of fully-dualizable objects…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Jan Hesse , Alessandro Valentino

We show, by an elementary and explicit construction, that the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of certain symplectic manifolds, endowed with Hofer's metric, contains subgroups quasi-isometric to Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimension.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Pierre Py

We consider various $A_{\infty}$-algebras of differential (super)forms, which are related to gauge theories and demonstrate explicitly how certain reformulations of gauge theories lead to the transfer of the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Martin Rocek , Anton M. Zeitlin

Let $H$ be a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra over a field $k$ and ${\mathfrak A}$ a right $H$-comodule algebra in the sense of Hausser and Nill. We first show that on the $k$-vector space ${\mathfrak A}\ot H^*$ we can define an…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Bulacu , S. Caenepeel

The bosonic sector of various supergravity theories reduces to a homogeneous space G/H in three dimensions. The corresponding algebras g are simple for (half-)maximal supergravity, but can be semi-simple for other theories. We extend the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-07 Axel Kleinschmidt , Diederik Roest

In this paper, we describe a relation between a categorical quantization construction, called "2-linearization", and extended topological quantum field theory (ETQFT). We then describe an extension of the 2-linearization process which…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Jeffrey C. Morton

We extend the derived Algebraic bordism of Lowrey and Sch\"urg to a bivariant theory in the sense of Fulton and MacPherson, and establish some of its basic properties. As a special case, we obtain a completely new theory of cobordism rings…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Toni Annala

In the Lagrangian approach to 2-dimensional sigma models, B-fields and D-branes contribute topological terms to the action of worldsheets of both open and closed strings. We show that these terms naturally fit into a 2-dimensional, smooth…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Severin Bunk , Konrad Waldorf

We develop a proposal by Freed to see anomalous field theories as relative field theories, namely field theories taking value in a field theory in one dimension higher, the anomaly field theory. We show that when the anomaly field theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-23 Samuel Monnier

We present a cocycle model for elliptic cohomology with complex coefficients in which methods from 2-dimensional quantum field theory can be used to rigorously construct cocycles. For example, quantizing a theory of vector bundle-valued…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Daniel Berwick-Evans

The relationship between associative composition algebras of dimensions 2 and 4 within the context of homogeneous spaces, with a particular focus on Hamiltonian quaternions, is explored. In the special case of Hamiltonian quaternions, the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Mahir Bilen Can , Ana Casimiro , Ferruh Özbudak