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Supersymmetry can be consistently generalized in one and two dimensional spaces, fractional supersymmetry being one of the possible extension. 2D fractional supersymmetry of arbitrary order $F$ is explicitly constructed using an adapted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Rausch de Traubenberg , P. Simon

We develop a framework to simulate quantum field theories (QFTs) with boundaries in $(1+1)$-dimenmsional curved spacetimes by employing open spin systems. Building upon our previous work that established a mapping from spin systems to QFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Shunichiro Kinoshita , Keiju Murata , Daisuke Yamamoto , Ryosuke Yoshii

We present a review of the spin and statistics of topological geons, particles in 3+1 quantum gravity. They can have half-odd-integral spin and fermionic statistics and since the underlying gravitational field is tensorial and bosonic, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. F. Dowker , R. D. Sorkin

In this paper we propose a unified statistics of Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics by suggesting that every particle can be associated with matter or fundamental forces with certain probability. The main Justification for this…

General Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Ahmad Adel Abutaleb

In this short note, we propose a generalization of Atiyah type TQFTs from pure states to mixed states in the sense that the Hilbert space of pure states associated to a space manifold is replaced by a quantum coherent space related to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Modjtaba Shokrian Zini , Zhenghan Wang

We propose a unifying mathematical framework describing the higher categorical structures formed by topological defects in quantum field theory equipped with tangential structures, such as orientations, framings, or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Lukas Müller

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

We construct higher categories of iterated spans, possibly equipped with extra structure in the form of "local systems", and classify their fully dualizable objects. By the Cobordism Hypothesis, these give rise to framed topological quantum…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Rune Haugseng

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

Quantum computing is captured in the formalism of the monoidal subcategory of $\textbf{Vect}_{\mathbb C}$ generated by $\mathbb C^2$ -- in particular, quantum circuits are diagrams in $\textbf{Vect}_{\mathbb C}$ -- while topological quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Mahmud Azam , Steven Rayan

Group field theories represent a 2nd quantized reformulation of the loop quantum gravity state space and a completion of the spin foam formalism. States of the canonical theory, in the traditional continuum setting, have support on graphs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-17 Daniele Oriti , James P. Ryan , Johannes Thürigen

Massive quantum matter of prescribed spin permits infinitely many possibilities of covariantization in terms of spinorial (undotted/dotted) pointlike fields, whereas massless finite helicity representations lead to large gap in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-30 Bert Schroer

We give a leisurely, albeit woefully incomplete, overview of quantum field theory, its relevance to condensed matter systems, and spin systems, which proceeds via a series of illustrative examples. The goal is to provide readers from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ingmar Saberi

We consider quantum transition amplitudes, partition functions and observables for 3D spin foam models within $SU(2)$ quantum group deformation symmetry, where the deformation parameter is a complex fifth root of unity. By considering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-13 Marcelo Amaral , Raymond Aschheim , Klee Irwin

We study a special sort of 2-dimensional extended Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) which we call open-closed TQFTs. These are defined on open-closed cobordisms by which we mean smooth compact oriented 2-manifolds with corners that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-22 Aaron D. Lauda , Hendryk Pfeiffer

We develop a systematic framework for constructing (3+1)-dimensional topological orders or topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) that realize specified anomalies of finite symmetries, as encountered in gauge theories with fermions or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Arun Debray , Weicheng Ye , Matthew Yu

We present commuting projector Hamiltonian realizations of a large class of (3+1)D topological models based on mathematical objects called unitary G-crossed braided fusion categories. This construction comes with a wealth of examples from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Dominic J. Williamson , Zhenghan Wang

We investigate the Chung-Fukuma-Shapere theory, or Kuperberg theory, of three-dimensional lattice topological field theory. We construct a functor which satisfies the Atiyah's axioms of topological quantum field theory by reformulating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Masako Asano

We show that a vector space valued TQFT constructed in work of De Renzi et al. [DGGPR23] extends naturally to a topological field theory which takes values in the symmetric monoidal category of linear cochains. Specifically, we consider a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Agustina Czenky , Cris Negron

A quantum field theory is referred to as bosonic (non-spin) if its physical quantities are independent of the spacetime spin structure, and as fermionic (spin) if they depend on it. We explore fermionic conformal field theories (CFTs) that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Kohki Kawabata , Tatsuma Nishioka , Takuya Okuda , Shinichiro Yahagi