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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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Geometry of 2D topological field theories
, 1996 These lecture notes are devoted to the theory of equations of associativity describing geometry of moduli spaces of 2D topological field theories. Introduction. Lecture 1. WDVV equations and Frobenius manifolds. {Appendix A.} Polynomial solutions of WDVV. {Appendix B.} Symmetriies of WDVV. Twisted Frobenius manifolds.
Dubrovin, Boris
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Quantization of algebraic invariants through Topological Quantum Field Theories [PDF]
, 2023 In this paper we investigate the problem of constructing Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) to quantize algebraic invariants. We exhibit necessary conditions for quantizability based on Euler characteristics. In the case of surfaces, also provide
González-Prieto, Ángel +2 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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3 definitions of BF theory on homology 3-spheres
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 3-dimensional BF theory with gauge group G (= Chern-Simons theory with non-compact gauge group TG) is a deceptively simple yet subtle topological gauge theory.
Matthias Blau +2 more
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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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Topological Field Theory Interpretation of String Topology [PDF]
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2003 The string bracket introduced by Chas and Sullivan is reinterpreted from the point of view of topological field theories in the Batalin-Vilkovisky or BRST formalisms. Namely, topological action functionals for gauge fields (generalizing Chern-Simons and B F theories) are considered together with generalized Wilson loops.
Cattaneo Alberto S. +2 more
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Complementary projection defects and decomposition
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 As put forward in [1] topological quantum field theories can be projected using so-called projection defects. The projected theory and its correlation functions can be completely realized within the unprojected one.
Fabian Klos, Daniel Roggenkamp
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