Questions tagged [mp.mathematical-physics]
Mathematical methods in classical mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, condensed matter, nuclear and atomic physics.
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$S$-matrix in QED in 2d space-time
I am not completely sure that this question is appropriate for this site, but I have asked a similar question here https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/271372/s-matrix-in-qed-in-2d-space-time ...
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Deformation quantization of Poisson bracket without star-product
Kontsevich's formality theorem implies in particular that star-products on a $C^\infty$-manifold $M$,
$$f\star g = fg + \sum_{k\geq1} \hbar^k B_k(f,g),\qquad f,g\in C^\infty(M),$$ where $B_k$ are ...
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Distinguishing the Duflo star product
$\newcommand{\g}{\mathfrak g}\newcommand{\h}{\hbar}$
For a finite dimensional Lie algebra $\g$, he Duflo isomorphism is a complicated algebra isomorphism between the $\g$-invariant part $S(\g)^\g$ of ...
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Branches of 3j symbols
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Is there a quick way to identify the branches in a 3J symbol?
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I need to compute Wigner 3J symbols/Clebsch–Gordan coefficients,
$$
\begin{pmatrix}
\ell_1 &\ell_2 &\ell_3\\
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How to derive explicit bound for the solution of following equation?
Let's have equation
$$
y''(t) + \left(\frac{3}{16t^{2}} + \frac{a}{t} -\frac{b}{t^{\frac{5}{4}}}cos(2t)\right)y(t) = 0, \quad t \in (1, \infty), \quad a, b > 0
$$
How to derive explicit upper bound ...
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cohomology ring of stable configuration spaces
Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. Distinct $k$-points $x_1,\cdots,x_k\in M$ are called stable if the potential energy given by coulomb forces among $k$ electrons reaches ...
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Can the compactification of a (co)tangent bundle equipped with Saski metric be viewed as a "Wick rotation"?
We can equip the (co)tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold (B,g) with a Saski metric $\hat{g}$ (see, for example, "On the geometry of tangent bundles" by Gudmunssun & Kappos) that looks like
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Stationary point processes with arbitrarily slow decorrelation
A point process $P$ (a probability measure on simple, locally finite point configurations $\mathcal{C}$ on $\mathbb{R}$ - I'm restricting to the one-dimensional setting) is stationary when law-...
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First return time in an interval for N particles rotating on the circle at constant random speeds
Here is my problem: draw N velocities $v_1,v_2,\dots,v_n$ in $[-\pi,\pi]^N$ from some measure (Haar measure of uniform independent for simplicity) and make $N$ particles rotate around the circle with ...
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$\mathbb Z/2$-orbifolds in Virasoro representations, CFTs, VOAs
Suppose that ${\rm Vir}_c$ is a rational Virasoro algebra with central charge $c$.
Then ${\rm Vir}_c$ has finitely many irreducible modules $M_h$, parametrised by the highest weights $h$.
Furthermore ...
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unitary equivalence
Let $U$ be the bilateral shift operator in $l^2(Z)$, and let $V$ stand for a rotation on an irrational angle $\alpha$ in $L^2(T, \mu)$, where $T$ is a circle with a rotation-invariant Lebesgue measure ...
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Open question: non-commutative site following Grothendieck, Quillen, Connes and Crane for quantum gravity.
This is an open question and it's to find out who is interested in this kind of thing, who can benefit from thinking about this. It is very brief but hopefully will only be unclear to people who are ...
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BKS pairing in the SU(2) Chern-Simons theory
I know that usually, the way to compare the Hilbert spaces arising from $SU(2)$ Chern-Simons theory with different Kähler polarizations is via the Hitchin connection. However, it should be possible, I ...
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Quantum dynamics on varieties: asymptotic quantum trace distance on SHL varieties
The Question Asked
Definition: the Second-Hand Lion trace distance $D_k$
Let $\mathcal{M}^{(kk)}_r$ be the set of $k\times k$ complex matrices of rank $\le r$ having unit trace norm. Then the ...
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Bundle of Dirac (Elliptic) operator on $T^2$
I am a physicist with weak math background and am reading a paper (pdf) on the electronic structure of graphene(wiki) (a 2D carbon sheet with hexagonal lattice structure). In the paper they claim it ...
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Lebesgue measure on Frechet space?
It is well known that there are no Lebesgue measures on infinite-dimensional Banach spaces (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_infinite-dimensional_Lebesgue_measure). However, I couldn'...
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Regularity of reflection coefficients (or more generally the scattering transform)
Consider the Schrodinger operator $L(q) = -\partial_x^2 + q(x)$ where the potential $q$ is a real-valued function of a real variable which decays sufficiently rapidly at $\pm \infty$.
We define the ...
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Representation theory of spinors - Understanding how $\mathrm{SO}_3$ acts in particle physics
$\DeclareMathOperator\U{U}\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}\DeclareMathOperator\O{O}$I have started to study particle physics, beginning with wikipedia and I am now reading David ...
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Coulomb branches which are not of cotangent type
To each $3d \, N=4$ supersymmetric quantum field theory $\mathcal{T}$, there is a related space called the Coulomb branch of this theory, $\mathcal{M}_C(\mathcal{T})$ (it is a piece of the moduli ...
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Asymptotic analysis for a double integral related to Airy functions
Let $Ai(x,y)$ be the Airy kernel which is given by
\begin{equation}\label{equ2.12}
Ai(x,y)=
\begin{cases}
\dfrac{Ai(x)Ai'(y)-Ai(y)Ai'(x)}{x-y}, & x\ne y, \\
Ai'(x)^2-xAi(x)^2 & x=y. \\
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Physical intuition for curvature on higher order frame bundles?
$\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}$A priori: I apologize if this isn't up to Mathoverflow standards, I've had very little luck getting questions on this subject answered elsewhere.
I'm looking for a physics ...
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Generalizing Kato-Seiler-Simon-type inequalities to diamagnetic operators
I recently learned about estimates one can perform with operators on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ given as $f(x)g(-i\nabla)$, see Chapter 4 in Trace Ideals and their Applications by Professor Barry Simon (the ...
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CFT as an axiomatic field theory
I'm trying to understand CFT from a purely axiomatic-field-theoretical perspective. That is, there is a vector space $V$ associated to the circle, and an element of $V^{\otimes n}$ associated to every ...
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Size of Hilbert space in geometric quantization from index theorem
In these notes on geometric quantization by Nair, on page 24, the Bohr-Sommerfeld rule in quantum mechanics is interpreted in terms of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.
To be precise, the polarization ...
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Is there any use for n-dimensional formal group laws in chromatic homotopy?
Chromatic homotopy tends to mainly focus on $1$-dimensional (commutative) FGLs. From a geometric perspective, this is because line bundles form a group and n-plane bundles don't, so the first Chern ...
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Superspace derivation of supersymmetric non-linear sigma model in Supersolutions by Deligne and Freed
I am having a little trouble understanding passage from the linear to the non-linear sigma model in Section 4.1 of Supersolutions by Deligne and Freed. Most of my confusion comes down to the ...
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Axiomatic string theory?
There have been many proposal of a mathematical definition of Quantum Field Theory, for instance through Wightman or Osterwalder-Schrader axioms. Were there any efforts toward doing the same for ...
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What is the natural framework for Lagrangians in QFT?
I wonder what is the natural geometric setting for Lagrangians in QFT, in the case of a general polynomial $P(\phi_i)$ of fields which could be scalars, or spinors etc:
Are there natural, geometrical ...
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Generalising Bäcklund transform to solve $\omega''(t)=t\sin\omega(t)$
Bäcklund transformations may be used also in ODE to solve non-linear problems; for instance, it's well known that for the equation
$$
\frac{\mathrm{d}^2\omega}{\mathrm{d}t^2}=\sin\omega
\tag{*}\label{...
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What role do semiclassical methods play in the study of Ginzburg--Landau-type equations?
As far as I understand, semiclassical limits are used in quantum mechanics to analyse equations that depend on a small parameter $\hbar$. Apparently studying properties of the PDE as $\hbar \to 0$ ...
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Intuition for conformal nets
I was planning on reading the work of Arthur Bartels, Christopher L. Douglas and André Henriques on the 3-category of conformal nets as discussed in these papers: Coordinate-free nets, Conformal ...
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What is known about the density of states for the Anderson Model?
The Anderson Model is given by the random Hamiltonian (as an operator on $l^2(\mathbb{Z}^d)$)
$$
H_\omega = - \triangle + V(\omega)
$$
where $V(\omega) \mid x \rangle = \omega(x) \mid x \rangle$ ...
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Examples of measures that satisfy FKG, but not the FKG lattice condition
Let a percolation measure be a measure on $\{0,1\}^n$. We have a natural partial order on $\{0,1\}^n$ given by comparing all coordinates. An event $A$ is called increasing if for all $ \omega \in A $ ...
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Pseudodifferential Operators and Functional Calculus
I hope this is not too naive a question for MO. I've been taking a mathematical physics course, and was shown how operators like $\sqrt{1-\Delta}$ could be defined by taking multiplication operators ...
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Inequalities for trace/eigenvalues of product of multiple 2x2 matrices
Consider the matrix product $\prod_i^n A_i$,
where each $A_i$ is a $2\times2$ matrix having the form $A_i = \left( \begin{smallmatrix} \lambda + \alpha_i & -\beta_i \\ 1 & 0\end{smallmatrix}\...
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Relationship between canonical commutation relations and projective representations?
$\DeclareMathOperator\CCR{CCR}\DeclareMathOperator\Im{Im}\DeclareMathOperator\PU{PU}$Let $V$ be a real vector space equipped with an antisymmetric bilinear form $\omega$. Recall that there is a $C^\...
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Schrodinger operator with magnetic field: eigenvalues
Consider the self-adjoint operator on $L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{N})$,
$$H=-\frac{1}{2}(\nabla-iA)^{2}+V,$$
where $A\in C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{N}, \mathbb{R}^{N} )$, $V\in C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{N})$, $V\...
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What is the value of the partition function of CFT on a compact conformal manifold?
Is the value of the partition function of a 2d CFT on a compact conformal manifold well defined? Or is there some kind of "anomaly" that makes it dependent on a bulk or some other kind of further ...
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Conditions on the Hamiltonian of a classical system that yeild essentially self-adjoint quantum Hamiltonian
What are the conditions on the Hamiltonian of a classical system that under these conditions the quantum Hamiltonian obtained via Weyl quantization will be essentially self-adjoint in $L_2(\mathbb{R}^...
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Bridgeland stability for restricted Kahler moduli?
Let $X$ be a simply-connected, smooth, projective Calabi-Yau threefold. To my understanding, Bridgeland introduced stability conditions on triangulated categories to give a proper mathematical ...
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List of Replica Symmetry results for different models?
Does anyone know of a good source that might have a list of problems or models along with what kind of replica symmetry they are conjectured to have?
I am aware of some of the more famous results, e....
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How is the instanton Floer homology of Seifert fibrations related to that of a trivial fibration
My question centers around the relationship of the Chern-Simons theories of a Seifert fibration and the trivial product space $\Sigma_g \times S^1$, and its implication for instanton Floer homology. ...
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Decomposition of the group of Bogoliubov transformations
Consider the fermion Fock space $\mathcal{F}=\bigoplus_{k\ge 0}\bigwedge^k\mathfrak{h}$ of some finite-dimensional 1-particle Hilbert space $\mathfrak{h}$. The group $\mathrm{Bog}(\mathcal{F})$ of ...
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What is variation of the Chern-Simons functional, and why can it be calculated as follows?
Let $G$ be a Lie group. Assume that we have an Ad-invariant bilinear symmetric form $$\langle-,-\rangle : \mathfrak{g} \times \mathfrak{g} \to \mathbb{C}.$$ Given a smooth manifold $X,$ we let $\...
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Counting "motifs" with the same "energy"
This question is motivated by physics --- trying to understanding the so-called 'accidental' (i.e. non representation-theoretic) degeneracies that occur in the spectrum of the Haldane--Shastry spin ...
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Chern-Simons and framing dependence$.$
I posted this question to physics.SE last week (cf. here), but it got not attention. I hope it is not too trivial to post it here.
According to ref.1, the correlation functions of a Chern-Simons ...
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Complex projective algebraic variety, moduli space of flat connections, and instantons
In Looijenga's work below, if I understand correctly, it shows that
Statement 1: At an algebraic variety, the moduli space of SU($N$) flat
connections on a 2-torus $T^2$ is given by the space of ...
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Virtual fundamental class of Moduli space of stable maps in genus 1
What is the virtual fundamental class of $\overline{M}_{1,n}(\mathbb{P}^2,d)$? In general the virtual fundamental class is difficult to compute I guess. But if you look at Proposition 2.5 of https://...
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Instanton configurations of self-dual and anti-self-dual instantons interplay
Yang-Mills gauge theory is given by the action
$$ S_\text{YM}[A] = \int_M\mathrm{Tr}_\mathfrak{g}(F\wedge \star F)$$
whose Euler-Lagrange equations are the classical equations of motion. The classical ...
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Langlands dual and integrable representations
Assume I successfully classified the integrable representations of a certain semi-simple Lie group $G$. Given this information, what do I know about the integrable representations of $G^\vee$, the ...