scholarly journals A Topology on Milnor’s Group of a Topological Field and Continuous Joint Determinants

Author(s):  
Sung Myung

For the tuple set of commuting invertible matrices with coefficients in a given field, the joint determinants are defined as generalizations of the determinant map for the square matrices. We introduce a natural topology on Milnor’s K-groups of a topological field as the quotient topology induced by the joint determinant map and investigate the existence of a nontrivial continuous joint determinant by utilizing this topology, generalizing the author’s previous results on the continuous joint determinants for the commuting invertible matrices over R and C.

Author(s):  
Laurent Baulieu ◽  
John Iliopoulos ◽  
Roland Sénéor

The motivation for supersymmetry. The algebra, the superspace, and the representations. Field theory models and the non-renormalisation theorems. Spontaneous and explicit breaking of super-symmetry. The generalisation of the Montonen–Olive duality conjecture in supersymmetric theories. The remarkable properties of extended supersymmetric theories. A brief discussion of twisted supersymmetry in connection with topological field theories. Attempts to build a supersymmetric extention of the standard model and its experimental consequences. The property of gauge supersymmetry to include general relativity and the supergravity models.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
YOTAM SMILANSKY ◽  
YAAR SOLOMON

Abstract We prove that in every compact space of Delone sets in ${\mathbb {R}}^d$ , which is minimal with respect to the action by translations, either all Delone sets are uniformly spread or continuously many distinct bounded displacement equivalence classes are represented, none of which contains a lattice. The implied limits are taken with respect to the Chabauty–Fell topology, which is the natural topology on the space of closed subsets of ${\mathbb {R}}^d$ . This topology coincides with the standard local topology in the finite local complexity setting, and it follows that the dichotomy holds for all minimal spaces of Delone sets associated with well-studied constructions such as cut-and-project sets and substitution tilings, whether or not finite local complexity is assumed.


1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (19) ◽  
pp. 3777-3786 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.F. CUGLIANDOLO ◽  
G. LOZANO ◽  
H. MONTANI ◽  
F.A. SCHAPOSNIK

We discuss the relation between different quantization approaches to topological field theories by deriving a connection between Bogomol’nyi and Langevin equations for stochastic processes which evolve towards an equilibrium state governed by the topological charge.


1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (20) ◽  
pp. 3571-3598 ◽  
Author(s):  
NOUREDDINE CHAIR ◽  
CHUAN-JIE ZHU

Some tetrahedra in SUk(2) Chern-Simons-Witten theory are computed. The results can be used to compute an arbitrary tetrahedron inductively by fusing with the fundamental representation. The results obtained are in agreement with those of quantum groups. By associating a (finite) topological field theory (FTFT) to every rational conformal field theory (RCFT), we show that the pentagon and hexagon equations in RCFT follow directly from some skein relations in FTFT. By generalizing the operation of surgery on links in FTFT, we also derive an explicit expression for the modular transformation matrix S(k) of the one-point conformal blocks on a torus in RCFT and the equations satisfied by S(k), in agreement with those required in RCFT. The implication of our results on the general program of classifying RCFT is also discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (05) ◽  
pp. 1750015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Monnier

We construct invertible field theories generalizing abelian prequantum spin Chern–Simons theory to manifolds of dimension [Formula: see text] endowed with a Wu structure of degree [Formula: see text]. After analyzing the anomalies of a certain discrete symmetry, we gauge it, producing topological field theories whose path integral reduces to a finite sum, akin to Dijkgraaf–Witten theories. We take a general point of view where the Chern–Simons gauge group and its couplings are encoded in a local system of integral lattices. The Lagrangian of these theories has to be interpreted as a class in a generalized cohomology theory in order to obtain a gauge invariant action. We develop a computationally friendly cochain model for this generalized cohomology and use it in a detailed study of the properties of the Wu Chern–Simons action. In the 3-dimensional spin case, the latter provides a definition of the “fermionic correction” introduced recently in the literature on fermionic symmetry protected topological phases. In order to construct the state space of the gauged theories, we develop an analogue of geometric quantization for finite abelian groups endowed with a skew-symmetric pairing. The physical motivation for this work comes from the fact that in the [Formula: see text] case, the gauged 7-dimensional topological field theories constructed here are essentially the anomaly field theories of the 6-dimensional conformal field theories with [Formula: see text] supersymmetry, as will be discussed elsewhere.


2009 ◽  
Vol 823 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Kapustin ◽  
Natalia Saulina

2017 ◽  
Vol 529 (12) ◽  
pp. 1700123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Di Ventra ◽  
Fabio L. Traversa ◽  
Igor V. Ovchinnikov

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