Related papers: On the naturality of the Mathai-Quillen formula
We begin with the construction of Mathai-Quillen's Thom form. We also study the case with group actions, with a review of equivariant cohomology and then Mathai-Quillen's construction in this setting. Next, we show that much of the above…
Using the Mathai-Quillen formalism we reexamine the twisted N=4 supersymmetric model of Vafa-Witten theory. Smooth out the relation between the supersymmetric action and the path integral representation of the Thom class.
We construct sheaf-cohomological analogues of Mathai-Quillen forms, that is, holomorphic bundle-valued differential forms whose cohomology classes are independent of certain deformations, and which are believed to possess Thom-like…
For the de Rham mapping cone cochain complex induced by a smooth closed 2-form, we explicitly write down the associated mapping cone Thom form in the sense of Mathai-Quillen. Our construction uses the mapping cone covariant derivative,…
We present a Mathai-Quillen interpretation of topological sigma models. The key to the construction is a natural connection in a suitable infinite dimensional vector bundle over the space of maps from a Riemann surface (the world sheet) to…
These lecture notes give an introductory account of an approach to cohomological field theory due to Atiyah and Jeffrey which is based on the construction of Gaussian shaped Thom forms by Mathai and Quillen. Topics covered are: an…
I present a simple, elementary proof of Morley's theorem, highlighting the naturalness of this theorem.
A simple field theoretical approach to Mathai-Quillen topological field theories of maps $X: M_I \to M_T$ from an internal space to a target space is presented. As an example of applications of our formalism we compute by applying our…
This is a first investigation by the author of the similarity between Quillen's superconnection formalism, his constructions of (periodic) cyclic cocycles via algebra cochains on a bar construction, and Kasparov bimodules for KK-theory. In…
The "Tate forms" for elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds are reconsidered in order to determine their general validity. We point out that there were some implicit assumptions made in the original derivation of these "Tate forms" from…
We establish a real version of Turrittin's result on polynomial and formal normal forms of linear systems of ODEs with meromorphic coefficients. Both the normal forms or the transformations used have only real coefficients. In order to…
We propose an alternative framework for quantifying coherence. The framework is based on a natural property of coherence, the additivity of coherence for subspace-independent states, which is described by an operation-independent equality…
In \cite{km2}, Kudla and Millson constructed a $q$-form $\varphi_{KM}$ on an orthogonal symmetric space using Howe's differential operators. It is a crucial ingredient in their theory of theta lifting. This form can be seen as a Thom form…
We consider t-structures that naturally arise on elliptic fibrations. By filtering the category of coherent sheaves on an elliptic fibration using the torsion pairs corresponding to these t-structures, we prove results describing…
In a previous paper (of which this is a prosecution) we investigated the extraction of proof-theoretic properties of natural deduction derivations from their impredicative translation into System F. Our key idea was to introduce an extended…
A mathematical framework of cohomological field theories (CohFTs) is formulated in the language of bigraded manifolds. Algebraic properties of operators in CohFTs are studied. Methods of constructing CohFTs, with or without gauge…
A common approach in physics and mathematics is to extend and modify theories and frameworks by considering what is often described as a `natural' extension or modification by including higher-order terms or by introducing other…
I define a naturalness criterion formalizing the intuitive notion of naturalness discussed in the literature. After that, using $\phi^4$ as an example, I demonstrate that a theory may be natural in the $MS$-scheme and, at the same time,…
We establish a form of the h-principle for the existence of foliations quasi-complementary to a given one; the same methods also provide a proof of the classical Mather-Thurston theorem.
In the first part of this paper we revisit a classical topological theorem by Tischler (1970) and deduce a topological result about compact manifolds admitting a set of independent closed forms proving that the manifold is a fibration over…