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Topology and local isometry, spinning cosmic string
Suppose one is given the spacetime $(M,g)$ where $M$ is a fixed differentiable manifold and $g$ is a Lorentzian metric whose local expression is:
$$g= -(dt + a \, d \phi)^2 + d\rho^2 + \kappa^2 \rho^2 ...
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Yang–Mills existence and mass gap official statement on Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^4$, why not Minkowski $ \mathbb{R}^{3,1}$?
Yang–Mills existence and mass gap problem is officially stated by Clay Mathematics Institute:
Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap.'' Prove that for any compact simple gauge group G, a non-trivial ...
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The Yang-Mills Higgs Lagrangian
Let's say we have a principal bundle $(P,B,\pi;G)$ and associated bundle $E=P \times_{(G,\rho)}V$and $Ad(P)=P\times_{(G,Ad)} \mathfrak{g}$ the adjoint bundle. The Yang-Mills-Higgs action (without ...
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Anti-symmetric operators for the Dirac or Majorana spinors
In a Zoom lecture given by a mathematical physics professor, if I recalled correctly, he explained that the in 1+1 dimensional spacetime (or 2 dimensions in short), the "action" of fermions (spinors) ...
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Dimensions of the instanton moduli space from Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer
Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer Ref 1 states that the number of
virtual dimensions of the instanton moduli space
for SU(N) Yang-Mills theory with topological charge $\mathcal{Q}$ over a manifold $X$ is given ...
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What is an "Instanton" in classical gauge theory? (to a mathematician)
There's already a question about the same topic but I think its aim is different.
Classical (non-quantum) gauge theory is a completely rigorous mathematical theory. It can be phrased in completely ...
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Different conventions for Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch?
I seem to find a disparity by a factor of 2 in some results where the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem is used. I am particularly troubled by the following example; in https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2786 (...
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Index Theorem for the Twisted Dirac Operator
In the Mirror Symmetry monograph (http://www.claymath.org/library/monographs/cmim01c.pdf), on page 297, the index theorem is used for a two-dimensional twisted Dirac operator. Below equation 13.37, it ...
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An example to show that when $P$ is a complex polarization the subbundle $P+ \bar P$ is not necessarly involutive
I start my question with some motivation. A subbundle $P\subset TM^{\mathbf{C}}$ of the complexified tangent bundle is called a complex polarization if
$P$ is Lagrangian
P involutive
dim$P\cap\bar P ...
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Looking for a necessary and sufficient condition for the polarization $\mathbb{P}$ being positive
My question is about positivity of polarization in Geometric quantization theory. Let $\mathbb{P}$, be a complex polarization on symplectic manifold $(M,\Omega)$. For every $m\in M$, we can define a ...
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What makes four dimensions special?
Do you know properties which distinguish four-dimensional spaces among the others?
What makes four-dimensional topological manifolds special?
What makes four-dimensional differentiable manifolds ...