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We give finiteness results and some classifications up to diffeomorphism of minimal strong symplectic fillings of Seifert fibered spaces over S^2 satisfying certain conditions, with a fixed natural contact structure. In some cases we can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Laura Starkston

Covariant (polysymplectic) Hamiltonian field theory is formulated as a particular Lagrangian theory on a polysymplectic phase space that enables one to quantize it in the framework of familiar quantum field theory.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

Let $M$ be a smooth projective variety and $\mathbf{D}$ an ample normal crossings divisor. From topological data associated to the pair $(M, \mathbf{D})$, we construct, under assumptions on Gromov-Witten invariants, a series of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Sheel Ganatra , Daniel Pomerleano

We provide a systematic method to deduce the global form of flavor symmetry groups in 4d N=2 theories obtained by compactifying 6d N=(2,0) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on a Riemann surface carrying regular punctures and possibly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Lakshya Bhardwaj

We present an array of new calculations in Lagrangian Floer theory which demonstrate observations relating to symplectic reduction, grading periodicity, and the closed-open map. We also illustrate Perutz's symplectic Gysin sequence and the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Jack Smith

The $(D+1)$-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT$_{D+1}$) of a $D$-dimensional absolute quantum field theory (QFT$_D$) provides a topological characterization of symmetry data. In this framework, the SymTFT comes equipped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Oren Bergman , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Daniele Migliorati , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is one of the useful methods to simulate phase separated structures of multi-component polymer systems. In this article, we propose an SCFT for semiflexible polymer melts, where the basic equations for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-04 Yutaka Oya , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

The graph Fourier transform (GFT) is a fundamental tool in graph signal processing and has recently been extended to the graph fractional Fourier transform (GFRFT). Existing sampling methods in the GFRFT domain are primarily designed to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Yu Zhang , Jia-Yin Peng , Bing-Zhao Li

The purpose of this paper is to give a survey of the various versions of Floer homology for manifolds with contact type boundary that have so far appeared in the literature. Under the name of ``Symplectic homology'' or ``Floer homology for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandru Oancea

A (biased and incomplete) review of the status of the theory of symplectic connections on supermanifolds is presented. Also, some comments regarding Fedosov's technique of quantization are made.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-02 José A. Vallejo

We provide an introductory exposition to the sheaf topos theoretic description of classical field theory motivated by the rigorous description of both $\bf{(i)}$ the variational calculus of (infinite dimensional) field-theoretic spaces, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Grigorios Giotopoulos

In many cases the symmetry structure of quantum field theories can be neatly encoded into their associated symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT), a topological field theory in one dimension higher. For geometrically engineered QFTs in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-12 Iñaki García Etxebarria , Saghar S. Hosseini

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

This survey wants to give a short introduction to the transversality problem in symplectic field theory and motivate to approach it using the new Fredholm theory by Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder. With this it should serve as a lead-in for the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-22 Oliver Fabert

In this Letter, we demonstrate that the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) associated to a Quantum Field Theory (QFT) with continuous non-abelian $G$-flavor symmetry is a $BF$-theory with gauge group $G$. We show that gauging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Qiang Jia , Ran Luo , Jiahua Tian , Yi-Nan Wang , Yi Zhang

This is a survey on the mixed spin P-fields (MSP fields for short) theory which provides a platform to understand the phase transition between Gromov-Witten theory of quintic CY 3-folds and Landau-Ginzburg theory of the corresponding…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Huai-Liang Chang , Jun Li , Wei-Ping Li , Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu

Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) is a statistical field theory for an ensemble of point-like classical particles in or out of equilibrium. We review its application to cosmological structure formation. Beginning with the construction of the…

We show that simply connected contact manifolds that are subcritically Stein fillable have a unique symplectically aspherical filling up to diffeomorphism. Various extensions to manifolds with non-trivial fundamental group are discussed.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Kilian Barth , Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

This is a mixture of survey article and research anouncement. We discuss Instanton Floer homology for 3 manifolds with boundary. We also discuss a categorification of the Lagrangian Floer theory using the unobstructed immersed Lagrangian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Kenji Fukaya

We describe the symplectic reduction construction for the physical phase space in gauge theory and apply it for the BF theory. Symplectic reduction theorem allows us to rewrite the same phase space as a quotient by the gauge group action,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-25 Vyacheslav Lysov