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A mathematically rigorous Hamiltonian formulation for classical and quantum field theories is given. New results include clarifications of the structure of linear fields, and a plausible formulation for nonlinear fields. Many mathematical…

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We present the invariant structure of a Holomorphic Unified Field Theory in which gravity and gauge interactions arise from a single geometric framework. The theory is formulated using a product principal bundle, with one connection, and…

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This article aims to provide a novel formalization of the concept of computational irreducibility in terms of the exactness of functorial correspondence between a category of data structures and elementary computations and a corresponding…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Jonathan Gorard

Farrell and Hsiang noticed that the geometric surgery groups defined By Wall, Chapter 9, do not have the naturality Wall claims for them. They were able to fix the problem by augmenting Wall's definitions to keep track of a line bundle. The…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Laurence R. Taylor

This paper lays the foundations for a unified framework for numerically and computationally applying methods drawn from a range of currently distinct geometrical approaches to statistical modelling. In so doing, it extends information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Karim Anaya-Izquierdo , Frank Critchley , Paul Marriott , Paul W. Vos

A number of recent works in E-print arXiv have addressed the foundation of gauge gravitation theory again. As is well known, differential geometry of fibre bundles provides the adequate mathematical formulation of classical field theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardanashvily

Co lombeau's construction of generalized functions (in its special variant) is extended to a theory of generalized sections of vector bundles. As particular cases, generalized tensor analysis and exterior algebra are studied. A point value…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

A general framework for effective theories propagating two tensor and one scalar degrees of freedom is investigated. Geometrically, it describes dynamical foliation of spacelike hypersurfaces coupled to a general background, in which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-29 Xian Gao

A generalized-homology bordism-theory is constructed, such that for certain manifold homotopy stratified sets (MHSS; Quinn-spaces) homeomorphism-invariant geometric fundamental-classes exist. The construction combines three ideas: Firstly,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Martin Rabel

We study the problem of interacting theories with (partially)-massless and conformal higher spin fields without matter in three dimensions. A new class of theories that have partially-massless fields is found, which significantly extends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 Maxim Grigoriev , Karapet Mkrtchyan , Evgeny Skvortsov

Tangent categories provide an axiomatic framework for understanding various tangent bundles and differential operations that occur in differential geometry, algebraic geometry, abstract homotopy theory, and computer science. Previous work…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-12 G. S. H. Cruttwell , Rory B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

The geometry of antisymmetric fields with nontrivial transitions over a base manifold is described in terms of exact sequences of cohomology groups. This formulation leads naturally to the appearance of nontrivial topological charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Caicedo , I. Martin , A. Restuccia

In this note, we consider how the bundle geometry of field space interplays with the covariant phase space methods so as to allow to write results of some generality on the presymplectic structure of invariant gauge theories coupled to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Jordan François , Noémie Parrini , Nicolas Boulanger

This work presents a comprehensive overview of three recently developed geometric frameworks for the study of classical action-dependent field theories. Specifically, the three underlying geometric structures - namely, k-contact,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Jordi Gaset-Rifà , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

The theory of linear transports along paths in vector bundles, generalizing the parallel transports generated by linear connections, is developed. The normal frames for them are defined as ones in which their matrices are the identity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bozhidar Z. Iliev

It is shown that every algebraic quantum field theory has an underlying functorial field theory which is defined on a suitable globally hyperbolic Lorentzian bordism pseudo-category. This means that globally hyperbolic Lorentzian bordisms…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Severin Bunk , James MacManus , Alexander Schenkel

We introduce in this paper a field theory on symplectic manifolds that are fibered over a real surface with interior marked points and cylindrical ends. We assign to each such object a morphism between certain tensor products of quantum and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Francois Lalonde

Orthogonal spaces are vector spaces together with a quadratic form whose associated bilinear form is non-degenerate. Over fields of characteristic two, there are many quadratic forms associated to a given bilinear form and quadratic…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Charlotte Kestner , Nicholas Ramsey

We demonstrate that the functorial properties of the symplectic field theory under strong cobordisms and surgery cobordisms can produce finite algebraic (planar) torsions from simple examples, which gives a unified treatment of most of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Zhengyi Zhou

A covariant, global, variational framework for perturbations in field theories is presented. Perturbations are obtained as vertical vector fields on the configuration bundle and they drag, exactly, solution into solutions. The flow of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 F. Chiaffredo , L. Fatibene , M. Ferraris , E. Ricossa , D. Usseglio
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