scholarly journals 2+1-D topological quantum field theory and 2-D conformal field theory

1995 ◽  
Vol 171 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Funar
1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 331-336
Author(s):  
BOGUSŁAW BRODA

A straightforward relationship between the two approaches to three-dimensional topological invariants, one of them put forward by Witten in the framework of topological quantum field theory, and the second one proposed by Kohno in terms of rational conformal field theory, is established.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1079-1105
Author(s):  
Rahul Nigam

In this review we study the elementary structure of Conformal Field Theory in which is a recipe for further studies of critical behavior of various systems in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. We briefly review CFT in dimensions which plays a prominent role for example in the well-known duality AdS/CFT in string theory where the CFT lives on the AdS boundary. We also describe the mapping of the theory from the cylinder to a complex plane which will help us gain an insight into the process of radial quantization and radial ordering. Finally we will develop the representation of the Virasoro algebra which is the well-known "Verma module".  


2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (24) ◽  
pp. 1430025
Author(s):  
Alexey Sleptsov

We discuss relation between knot theory and topological quantum field theory. Also it is considered a theory of superpolynomial invariants of knots which generalizes all other known theories of knot invariants. We discuss a possible generalization of topological quantum field theory with the help of superpolynomial invariants.


2007 ◽  
Vol 05 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 223-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNALISA MARZUOLI ◽  
MARIO RASETTI

We resort to considerations based on topological quantum field theory to outline the development of a possible quantum algorithm for the evaluation of the permanent of a 0 - 1 matrix. Such an algorithm might represent a breakthrough for quantum computation, since computing the permanent is considered a "universal problem", namely, one among the hardest problems that a quantum computer can efficiently handle.


1999 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 125-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Crane ◽  
David Yetter

We show that any 3D topological quantum field theory satisfying physically reasonable factorizability conditions has associated to it in a natural way a Hopf algebra object in a suitable tensor category. We also show that all objects in the tensor category have the structure of left-left crossed bimodules over the Hopf algebra object. For 4D factorizable topological quantum filed theories, we provide by analogous methods a construction of a Hopf algebra category.


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