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We formulate semi-classical field theory as an approximate decoherence-free-subspace of a finite-dimensional quantum-gravity hilbert space. A complementarity construction can be realized as a unitary transformation which changes the…

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Background independence is often emphasized as an important property of a quantum theory of gravity that takes seriously the geometrical nature of general relativity. In a background-independent formulation, quantum gravity should determine…

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We extend a simple model of a charge trap coupled to a single-electron box to energy ranges and parameters such that it gives new insights and predictions readily observable in many experimental systems. We show that a single background…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-25 M. Pierre , M. Hofheinz , X. Jehl , M. Sanquer , G. Molas , M. Vinet , S. Deleonibus

In this paper we study a new symmetry argument that results in a vacuum state with strictly vanishing vacuum energy. This argument exploits the well-known feature that de Sitter and Anti- de Sitter space are related by analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gerard 't Hooft , Stefan Nobbenhuis

We study four dimensional quantum gravity formulated as a certain conformal field theory at the ultraviolet fixed point, whose dynamics is described by the combined system of Riegert-Wess-Zumino and Weyl actions. Background free nature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-11 Ken-ji Hamada

We prove that a scalar quantum field theory defined on noncommutative Minkowski spacetime with noncommuting momentum coordinates is covariant with respect to the UV/IR duality which exchanges coordinates and momenta. The proof is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-18 Andre Fischer , Richard J. Szabo

We show that symmetry in the vanishing of cohomology holds for graded modules over quantum complete intersections. Moreover, symmetry holds for all modules if the algebra is symmetric.

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2008-11-27 Petter Andreas Bergh

Let X be a (connected and reduced) complex space. A q-collar of X is a bounded domain whose boundary is a union of a strongly q-pseudoconvex, a strongly q-pseudoncave and two flat (i.e. locally zero sets of pluriharmonic functions)…

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We study environmentally induced decoherence of an electromagnetic field in a homogeneous, linear, dielectric medium. We derive an independent oscillator model for such an environment, which is sufficiently realistic to encompass…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. R. Anglin , W. H. Zurek

Decoherence in quantum computers is formulated within the Semigroup approach. The error generators are identified with the generators of a Lie algebra. This allows for a comprehensive description which includes as a special case the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 D. A. Lidar , I. L. Chuang , K. B. Whaley

For ample vector bundles $E$ over compact complex varieties $X$ and a Schur functor $S_I$ corresponding to an arbitrary partition $I$ of the integer $|I|$, one would like to know the optimal vanishing theorem for the cohomology groups…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Laytimi , W. Nahm

One of the fundamental challenges in string theory is to derive realistic four-dimensional cosmological backgrounds from it despite strict consistency conditions that constrain its possible low-energy backgrounds. In this work, we focus on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Heliudson Bernardo , Suddhasattwa Brahma , Mir Mehedi Faruk

In \cite{Broer1993}, it was shown that certain line bundles on $\widetilde{\mathcal{N}}=T^*G/B$ have vanishing higher cohomology. We prove a generalization of this theorem for real reductive algebraic groups. More specifically, if…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jack A. Cook

Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime (QFT on CS) is a well established theoretical framework which intuitively should be a an extremely effective description of the quantum nature of matter when propagating on a given background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-30 Kristina Giesel , Johannes Tambornino , Thomas Thiemann

We describe the definition and the role background independence and the closely related notion of diffeomorphism invariance play in modern string theory. These important concepts are transformed by a new understanding of gauge redundancies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-03 Moshe Rozali

We study the general form of M"obius covariant local commutation relations in conformal chiral quantum field theories and show that they are intrinsically determined up to structure constants, which are subject to an infinite system of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Antonia M. Kukhtina , Karl-Henning Rehren

This study was started to know mysterious classicality of nuclei. Using three particles model without external environments, it is found that decisions of respective state of three particles by decoherence are not simultaneous. Furthermore,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Takuji Ishikawa

This paper examines the causal structure of the commutator of two string fields, in free light-cone string field theory. By treating the commutator as a distribution on infinite dimensional loop space, it is shown that the commutator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 D. A. Lowe

In this paper, via a new Hardy type inequality, we establish some cohomology vanishing theorems for free boundary compact submanifolds $M^n$ with $n\geq2$ immersed in the Euclidean unit ball $\mathbb{B}^{n+k}$ under one of the pinching…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Niang Chen , Jianquan Ge

String field theory is supposed to stand to perturbative string theory as quantum field theory stands to single-particle quantum theory; as such, it purports to offer a substantially more general and powerful perspective on string theory…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Bhanu Narra , James Read , Matěj Krátký