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We study K\"{a}hler gravity on local SU(N) geometry and describe precise correspondence with certain supersymmetric gauge theories and random plane partitions. The local geometry is discretized, via the geometric quantization, to a foam of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Takashi Maeda , Toshio Nakatsu , Yui Noma , Takeshi Tamakoshi

This paper is twofold. First of all a complete unified picture of $n$-dimensional quantum gravity is proposed in the following sense: In spin foam models of quantum gravity the evaluation of spin networks play a very important role. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Manuel Garcia-Islas

We survey the mathematical foundations of geometric deep learning, focusing on group equivariant and gauge equivariant neural networks. We develop gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks on arbitrary manifolds $\mathcal{M}$ using…

We show that it is possible to represent various descriptions of Quantum Mechanics in geometrical terms. In particular we start with the space of observables and use the momentum map associated with the unitary group to provide an unified…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Carinena , J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo

Quantum states of geometry in loop quantum gravity are defined as spin networks, which are graph dressed with SU(2) representations. A spin network edge carries a half-integer spin, representing basic quanta of area, and the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Etera R. Livine

In this work, we extend the so-called typicality approach, originally formulated in statistical mechanics contexts, to $SU(2)$-invariant spin-network states. Our results do not depend on the physical interpretation of the spin network;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Fabio Anzà , Goffredo Chirco

We describe how a spin-foam state sum model can be reformulated as a quantum field theory of spin networks, such that the Feynman diagrams of that field theory are the spin-foam amplitudes. In the case of open spin networks, we obtain a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Mikovic

A set of observables is described for the topological quantum field theory which describes quantum gravity in three space-time dimensions with positive signature and positive cosmological constant. The simplest examples measure the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 John W. Barrett

The mathematical apparatus of quantum--mechanical angular momentum (re)coupling, developed originally to describe spectroscopic phenomena in atomic, molecular, optical and nuclear physics, is embedded in modern algebraic settings which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 V. Aquilanti , A. C. P. Bitencourt , C. da S. Ferreira , A. Marzuoli , M. Ragni

Variational algorithms require architectures that naturally constrain the optimization space to run efficiently. Geometric quantum machine learning achieves this goal by encoding group structure into parameterized quantum circuits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Richard D. P. East , Guillermo Alonso-Linaje , Chae-Yeun Park

We propose a new formalism of quantum subsystems which allows to unify the existing and new methods of reduced description of quantum systems. The main mathematical ingredients are completely positive maps and correlation functions. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Alicki , M. Fannes , M. Pogorzelska

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrew Vlasic

We study the holographic properties of a class of quantum geometry states characterized by a superposition of discrete geometric data, in the form of generalised tensor networks. This class specifically includes spin networks, the kinematic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Eugenia Colafranceschi , Simon Langenscheidt , Daniele Oriti

Graphical techniques provide a very useful practical device for calculations involving the so-called spin network states, which encode the quantum degrees of freedom of spatial geometry in loop quantum gravity. Graphical calculus of SU(2),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-04 Emanuele Alesci , Ilkka Mäkinen , Jinsong Yang

The ZX-calculus, and the variant we consider in this paper (ZXH-calculus), are formal diagrammatic languages for qubit quantum computing. We show that it can also be used to describe SU(2) representation theory. To achieve this, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Richard D. P. East , Pierre Martin-Dussaud , John Van de Wetering

In the search for a covariant formulation for Loop Quantum Gravity, spin foams have arised as the corresponding discrete space-time structure and, among the different models, the Barrett-Crane model seems the most promising. Here, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Etera R Livine

Quantum networks are often modelled using Schroedinger operators on metric graphs. To give meaning to such models one has to know how to interpret the boundary conditions which match the wave functions at the graph vertices. In this article…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pavel Exner , Olaf Post

The past few years have seen a revived interest in quantum geometrical characterizations of band structures due to the rapid development of topological insulators and semi-metals. Although the metric tensor has been connected to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Adrien Bouhon , Abigail Timmel , Robert-Jan Slager

Exactly soluble models can serve as excellent tools to explore conceptual issues in non-perturbative quantum gravity. In perturbative approaches, it is only the two radiative modes of the linearized gravitational field that are quantized.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Abhay Ashtekar

Many homogeneous, four-dimensional space-time geometries can be considered within real projective geometry, which yields a mathematically well-defined framework for their deformations and limits without the appearance of singularities.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-22 Daniel Spitz