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In this paper we indicate one method of construction of linear representations of groups and algebras with translation invariant (except, maybe , finite number) defining relationships. As an illustration of this method, we give one approach…

q-alg · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Vladimir K. Medvedev

We prove a `Whitney' presentation, and a `Coulomb branch' presentation, for the torus equivariant quantum K theory of the Grassmann manifold $\mathrm{Gr}(k;n)$, inspired from physics, and stated in an earlier paper. The first presentation…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Wei Gu , Leonardo C. Mihalcea , Eric Sharpe , Hao Zou

Quantum contextuality, a fundamental feature distinguishing quantum theory from classical models, is investigated via algebraic and topological structures inherent in modular tensor categories. This work rigorously demonstrates that braid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Tzu-Miao Chou

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

Extending the methods from our previous work on quantum knots and quantum graphs, we describe a general procedure for quantizing a large class of mathematical structures which includes, for example, knots, graphs, groups, algebraic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Samuel J. Lomonaco , Louis H. Kauffman

We introduce the Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming framework for the quantum compilation problem and apply it in the context of topological quantum computing. In this setting, quantum gates are realized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Pavel Rytir , Phillip C. Burke , Christos Aravanis , Jiri Vala , Jakub Marecek

A many variable $q$-calculus is introduced using the formalism of braided covector algebras. Its properties when certain of its deformation parameters are roots of unity are discussed in detail, and related to fractional supersymmetry. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 R. S. Dunne

We consider two different types of deformations for the linear group $ GL(n)$ which correspond to using of a general diagonal R-matrix. Relations between braided and quantum deformed algebras and their coactions on a quantum plane are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 B. M. Zupnik

We conjecture formulae of the colored superpolynomials for a class of twist knots $K_p$ where p denotes the number of full twists. The validity of the formulae is checked by applying differentials and taking special limits. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-18 Satoshi Nawata , P. Ramadevi , Zodinmawia , Xinyu Sun

We study the asymptotic behavior of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant associated with the square of the $n$-th root of unity with odd $n$ for a Seifert fibered space obtained by an integral Dehn surgery along a torus knot. We show…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Hitoshi Murakami , Anh T. Tran

The physical interpretation of the main notions of the quantum group theory (coproduct, representations and corepresentations, action and coaction) is discussed using the simplest examples of $q$-deformed objects (quantum group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 P. P. Kulish

We describe the mathematical theory of topological quantum computing with symmetry defects in the language of fusion categories and unitary representations. Symmetry defects together with anyons are modeled by G-crossed braided extensions…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Colleen Delaney , Zhenghan Wang

The tail of a quantum spin network in the two-sphere is a $q$-series associated to the network. We study the existence of the head and tail functions of quantum spin networks colored by $2n$. We compute the $q$-series for an infinite family…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Mohamed Elhamdadi , Mustafa Hajij , Jesse S F Levitt

Governed by locality, we explore a connection between unitary braid group representations associated to a unitary $R$-matrix and to a simple object in a unitary braided fusion category. Unitary $R$-matrices, namely unitary solutions to the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Eric C. Rowell , Zhenghan Wang

We introduce and compute a 2-parameter family deformation of the A-polynomial that encodes the color dependence of the superpolynomial and that, in suitable limits, reduces to various deformations of the A-polynomial studied in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-23 Hiroyuki Fuji , Sergei Gukov , Piotr Sułkowski

We summarize our recently proposed approach to quantum field theory on noncommutative curved spacetimes. We make use of the Drinfel'd twist deformed differential geometry of Julius Wess and his group in order to define an action functional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-24 Alexander Schenkel

A defining feature of topologically ordered states of matter is the existence of locally indistinguishable states on spaces with non-trivial topology. These degenerate states form a representation of the mapping class group (MCG) of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-06 Guanyu Zhu , Ali Lavasani , Maissam Barkeshli

Two geometric spaces are in the same topological class if they are related by certain geometric deformations. We propose machine learning methods that automate learning of topological invariance and apply it in the context of knot theory,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-18 James Halverson , Fabian Ruehle

Topological gauge theories in four dimensions which admit surface operators provide a natural framework for realizing homological knot invariants. Every such theory leads to an action of the braid group on branes on the corresponding moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergei Gukov

Quantum deformations of sets of points of the real and the complexified projective line are constructed. These deformations depend on the deformation parameter q and certain further parameters \lambda_{ij}. The deformations for which the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Frank Leitenberger