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Topological defects in nonlocal field theories
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 In this paper we study for the first time topological defects in the context of nonlocal field theories in which Lagrangians contain infinite-order differential operators. In particular, we analyze domain walls.
Luca Buoninfante +2 more
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Constrained topological field theory [PDF]
Physics Letters B, 1994 We derive a model of constrained topological gravity, a theory recently introduced by us through the twist of N=2 Liouville theory, starting from the general BRST algebra and imposing the moduli space constraint as a gauge fixing. To do this, it is necessary to introduce a formalism that allows a careful treatment of the global and the local degrees of
ANSELMI, DAMIANO +3 more
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Generalized symmetries of topological field theories
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 We study generalized symmetries in a simplified arena in which the usual quantum field theories of physics are replaced with topological field theories and the smooth structure with which the symmetry groups of physics are usually endowed is forgotten ...
Ben Gripaios +2 more
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Balanced Topological Field Theories [PDF]
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 1997 We describe a class of topological field theories called ``balanced topological field theories.'' These theories are associated to moduli problems with vanishing virtual dimension and calculate the Euler character of various moduli spaces. We show that these theories are closely related to the geometry and equivariant cohomology of ``iterated ...
Dijkgraaf, R.H., Moore, G.
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Integrality, duality and finiteness in combinatoric topological strings
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 A remarkable result at the intersection of number theory and group theory states that the order of a finite group G (denoted |G|) is divisible by the dimension d R of any irreducible complex representation of G.
Robert de Mello Koch +3 more
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Perturbing topological field theories [PDF]
Physical Review D, 1999 The abelian Chern-Simons theory is perturbed by introducing local gauge-invariant interaction terms depending on the curvature. The computation of the correlation function of two Wilson lines for two smooth closed nonintersecting curves is reported up to four loops and is shown to be unaffected by radiative corrections.
Vitor E. R. Lemes +5 more
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On partition functions of refined Chern-Simons theories on S 3
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 We present a new expression for the partition function of the refined Chern-Simons theory on S 3 with an arbitrary gauge group, which is explicitly equal to 1 when the coupling constant is zero.
M.Y. Avetisyan, R.L. Mkrtchyan
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Connectomes and properties of quantum entanglement
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 Topological quantum field theories (TQFT) encode properties of quantum states in the topological features of abstract manifolds. One can use the topological avatars of quantum states to develop intuition about different concepts and phenomena of quantum ...
Dmitry Melnikov
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Knots, links, and long-range magic
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 We study the extent to which knot and link states (that is, states in 3d Chern-Simons theory prepared by path integration on knot and link complements) can or cannot be described by stabilizer states. States which are not classical mixtures of stabilizer
Jackson R. Fliss
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Revisiting the Melvin-Morton-Rozansky expansion, or there and back again
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 Alexander polynomial arises in the leading term of a semi-classical Melvin-Morton-Rozansky expansion of colored knot polynomials. In this work, following the opposite direction, we propose how to reconstruct colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials ...
Sibasish Banerjee +2 more
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