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These lecture notes cover 13 sessions and are presented as an e-print, intended to evolve over time. Quantum invariants do more than distinguish topological objects; they build bridges between topology, algebra, number theory and quantum…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Daniel Tubbenhauer

Quantum field theory unifies concepts from quantum theory and from special relativity. Its mathematically rigorous description is quite intricate and is only partially understood; this is particularly true for the construction of operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Henning Bostelmann

The modern quantum theory is based on the assumption that quantum states are represented by elements of a complex Hilbert space. It is expected that in future quantum theory the number field will be not postulated but derived from more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Lev

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

The concept of quantum commutativity with respect to an action or coaction of a given Hopf algebra is used for the algebraic description of a system of particles and their interaction with certain quantum field. Graded commutativity and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Wladyslaw Marcinek

The orbifold construction via topological defects in quantum field theory can either be understood as a state sum construction internal to a given ambient theory, or as the procedure of (identifying and) gauging ordinary and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Nils Carqueville

The principal goal of this paper is to pass all quantum probability formulas to the projective space associated to the complex Hilbert space of a given quantum system, providing a more complete geometrization of quantum theory. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Stephen Bruce Sontz

This is an introduction to quantum gravity, aimed at a fairly general audience and concentrating on what have historically two main approaches to quantum gravity: the covariant and canonical programs (string theory is not covered). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Wallace

We define a notion of formal quantum field theory and associate a formal quantum field theory to K-theoretical intersection theories on Hilbert schemes of points on algebraic surfaces. This enables us to find an effective way to compute…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Jian Zhou

An algebraic quantum field theory (AQFT) may be expressed as a functor from a category of spacetimes to a category of algebras of observables. However, a generic category $\mathsf{C}$ whose objects admit interpretation as spacetimes is not…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Alastair Grant-Stuart

A new application of quantum field theory is developed that gives a description of the internal dynamics of dressed elementary particles and predicts their masses. The fermionic and bosonic quantum fields are treated as interdependent…

General Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 J. M. Greben

Entanglement is one of the pillars of quantum mechanics and quantum information processing, and as a result the quantumness of nonentangled states has typically been overlooked and unrecognized. We give a robust definition for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Berry Groisman , Dan Kenigsberg , Tal Mor

In this paper, we extend past work done on the application of the mathematics of category theory to quantum information science. Specifically, we present a realization of a dagger-compact category that can model finite-dimensional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Ville Bergholm , Jacob D. Biamonte

We propose a new mwthod of constructing 4D-TQFTs. The method uses a new type of algebraic structure called a Hopf Category. We also outline the construction of a family of Hopf categories related to the quantum groups, using the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Louis Crane , Igor B. Frenkel

For classical field theories with probabilistic initial conditions the classical field observables are an idealization. Their arbitrarily precise values poorly reflect the characteristic uncertainty in the presence of substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Christof Wetterich

Symmetries are playing a very prominent role in natural sciences. In mathematics as the language of physics, symmetries are treated within the framework of group theory, which provides the tools to classify natural laws and physical objects…

Popular Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 Andreas Aste

We describe how dagger-Frobenius monoids give the correct categorical description of certain kinds of finite-dimensional 'quantum algebras'. We develop the concept of an involution monoid, and use it to construct a correspondence between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Jamie Vicary

Quantum cluster approaches offer new perspectives to study the complexities of macroscopic correlated fermion systems. These approaches can be understood as generalized mean-field theories. Quantum cluster approaches are non-perturbative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Th. Maier , M. Jarrell , Th. Pruschke , M. H. Hettler

A mathematically well-defined, manifestly covariant theory of classical and quantum field is given, based on Euclidean Poisson algebras and a generalization of the Ehrenfest equation, which implies the stationary action principle. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnold Neumaier

A generalization of the Heisenberg algebra has been recently constructed. This generalized algebra has a characteristic function which depends on one of its generators. When this function is linear, $qJ_0+s$, it is possible to construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 C. I. Ribeiro-Silva , N. M. Oliveira-Neto