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Staggered bosons and Kahler-Dirac bosons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We describe a novel way to think about bosonic lattice theories in Hamiltonian form where each lattice site has only a half boson degree of freedom. The construction requires a non-trivial Poisson bracket between neighboring sites and leads to gapless theories with non-invertible symmetries. We also describe a bosonic version of Kahler-Dirac fermions, dubbed Kahler-Dirac bosons that can be performed on any triangulation of a manifold. This also leads to a straightforward implementation of supersymmetry on the lattice and one immediately deduces the Dirac equation of the corresponding Kahler-Dirac fermions.

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@article{arxiv.2405.03758,
  title  = {Staggered bosons and Kahler-Dirac bosons},
  author = {David Berenstein and Simon Catterall and P. N. Thomas Lloyd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03758},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

8 pages, Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2023, Workshop on Noncommutative and Generalized Geometry in String theory, Gauge theory and Related Physical Models

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