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Circuit complexity for two-dimensional topological quantum field theories (2D TQFT) was defined by Couch, Fan, and Shashi in [12]. In this paper, we study complexity for the 2D TQFT given by quantum cohomology of compact symplectic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Xiaobo Liu , Chongyu Wang

We revisit the question of whether the Crane-Yetter topological quantum field theory (TQFT) associated to a modular tensor category admits a fully extended refinement. More specifically, we use tools from stable homotopy theory to classify…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Luuk Stehouwer

Based on different views on the Jones polynomial we review representation theoretic categorified link and tangle invariants. We unify them in a common combinatorial framework and connect them via the theory of Soergel bimodules. The…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Catharina Stroppel

In this paper we suggest that in the framework of the Category Theory it is possible to demonstrate the mathematical and logical \textit{dual equivalence} between the category of the $q$-deformed Hopf Coalgebras and the category of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Gianfranco Basti , Antonio Capolupo , Giuseppe Vitiello

((1+1)-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ super-symmetric field theory and (3+1)-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ super-symmetric gauge theory are discussed in a, more or less, unified way, designed to identify the quantum BPS states in both systems.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-29 Juan Mateos Guilarte

Topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a powerful tool to describe homologies, which normally involve complexes and a variety of maps/morphisms, what makes a functional integration approach with a sum over a single kind of maps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Dmitry Galakhov , Elena Lanina , Alexei Morozov

Triangulations and higher triangulations axiomatize the calculus of derived cokernels when applied to strings of composable morphisms. While there are no cubical versions of (higher) triangulations, in this paper we use coherent diagrams to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Falk Beckert , Moritz Groth

Deterministic dynamical models are discussed which can be described in quantum mechanical terms. -- In particular, a local quantum field theory is presented which is a supersymmetric classical model. The Hilbert space approach of Koopman…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Hans-Thomas Elze

We study the cohomology of $G$-representation varieties and $G$-character stacks by means of a topological quantum field theory (TQFT). This TQFT is constructed as the composite of a so-called field theory and the 6-functor formalism of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Jesse Vogel

By dimensional reduction, Einstein-Hermitian equations of n + 1 dimensional closed Kahler manifolds lead to vortex equations of n dimensional closed Kahler manifolds. A Yang-Mills-Higgs functional to unitary bundles over closed Kahler…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Hyuk-jae Lee

We give a definition of weak n-categories based on the theory of operads. We work with operads having an arbitrary set S of types, or `S-operads', and given such an operad O, we denote its set of operations by elt(O). Then for any S-operad…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 John C. Baez , James Dolan

We explore a wider theoretical framework that has quantum field theory built-in, taking the fact that quantum mechanics is reconstructed from quantum field theory as a hint. We formulate a quantum theory with an embedded structure by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-13 Yoshiharu Kawamura

We develop a theory of descent and forms of tensor categories over arbitrary fields. We describe the general scheme of classification of such forms using algebraic and homotopical language, and give examples of explicit classification of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Pavel Etingof , Shlomo Gelaki

For a group G, the notion of a ribbon G-category was introduced by the second author in a previous work with a view towards constructing 3-dimensional homotopy quantum field theories (HQFT's) with target K(G,1). We discuss here how to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thang Le , Vladimir Turaev

A 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a symmetric monoidal functor from the category of 3-cobordisms to the category of vector spaces. Such TQFTs provide in particular numerical invariants of closed 3-manifolds such as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Mickael Lallouche

We introduce a notion of quantum function, and develop a compositional framework for finite quantum set theory based on a 2-category of quantum sets and quantum functions. We use this framework to formulate a 2-categorical theory of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Benjamin Musto , David Reutter , Dominic Verdon

It is shown how the theory of the fields can be constructed in a consistent way in quantized spaces. All constructions are connected with unitary irreducible representations of real forms of six dimensional rotation algebras O(1,5), O(2,4),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Leznov

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) developed in Rindler space-time and its thermal properties are analyzed by means of quantum groups approach. The quantum deformation parameter, labelling the unitarily inequivalent representations, turns out to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gaetano Lambiase

Whereas formal category theory is classically considered within a $2$-category, in this paper a double-dimensional approach is taken. More precisely we develop such theory within the setting of augmented virtual double categories, a notion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Seerp Roald Koudenburg

We give a detailed exposition of the formalism of Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) with emphasis on the perturbative determination of observables. KFT is a statistical non-equilibrium classical field theory based on the path integral formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shayan Hemmatyar , Stefan Zentarra