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Mathematical methods in classical mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, condensed matter, nuclear and atomic physics.

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Borel-Écalle re-summation and resurgence: criteria and results

This is about the theory of Borel-Écalle re-summation and resurgence, see Refs below. This states that the perturbative series (say of the vacuum expectation value of an operator $\mathcal{O}$ in quan …
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Define the 3d Chern-Simons TQFT on a discrete simplicial complex

Question: What is the challenge and the current status to define the 3d Chern-Simons(-Witten) (CSW) theory on a simplicial complex or on a discrete lattice? (Or is there a no-go or an obstruction behi …
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Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics, Einstein gravity and holography

There was some activity a while ago, like 10 years ago, string theoreists try to relate the fluid dynamics, for example, governed by Navier-Stokes equation, to the Einstein gravity, and its re …
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Yang–Mills existence and mass gap official statement on Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^4$, why not Mi...

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 quant …
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Coleman–Mandula theorem and a mathematical proof

Coleman–Mandula theorem (by Sidney Coleman and Jeffrey Mandula) [1] is a no-go theorem in theoretical physics. It states that "space-time and internal symmetries cannot be combined in any but a trivia …
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Witten zeta function v.s. Riemann zeta function

From a talk, we learned that The symplectic volume of the space $M$ of gauge equivalence classes of flat G connections is given by the “Witten zeta function”: where we sum over irreducible repres …
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Group cohomology version of Deligne-Beilinson cohomology

I appreciate Deligne-Beilinson cohomology as a topological cohomology generalization of de Rham cohomology, which concerns the topological structure of manifolds. On the other hand, we know that ther …
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Maxwell $U(1)$ gauge theory's electric and magnetic sources turned on simultaneously in the ...

Question: How do we couple $U(1)$ electric (E) and magnetic (M) sources simultaneously in the classical differential geometry language, in a $U(1)$ gauge theory based on $U(1)$ gauge bundle and its $U …
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$T\bar{T}$ deformation: Stress-energy momentum tensor deformed in CFT and in QFT for various...

The $T\bar{T}$ deformation is based on the original work of Zamolochikov [1] explored deformations of two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) by an operator that is quadratic in the stress-ener …
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$e^{2\pi ic_{-}/8}$ and $e^{2\pi ic_{-}/24}$ in unitary modular category (UMC)

Background Unitary modular categories (UMC) do not capture the central charge $c_{-}$ of the topological quantum field theory (TQFT). However, there is a relation that fixes, $c_{-}\bmod 8$: \begin{e …
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Vafa-Witten invariants for mathematicians

As Richard Thomas has written (we paraphrase just slightly), mathematical physicists Vafa and Witten introduced new "invariants" of four-dimensional spaces in a paper: A Strong Coupling Test of S-Du …
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Supersymmetry charge $Q$ as anti-linear and anti-unitary operator

We know the supersymmetry (SUSY) charge $Q$ satisfies the following relation respect to fermion parity operator $(-1)^F$: $$ (-1)^F Q + Q (-1)^F :=\{Q, (-1)^F \} =0 $$ which defines the anti-commutat …
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Mathematical/Physical uses of $SO(8)$ and Spin(8) triality

Triality is a relationship among three vector spaces. It describes those special features of the Dynkin diagram D4 and the associated Lie group Spin(8), the double cover of 8-dimensional rotation grou …
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Number Theory and Gravity

Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures about connections between number theory and geometry. Proposed by Robert Langlands at IAS (1967, 1970), it seeks to relate Galois …
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Yang-Mills theory v.s. Kaluza–Klein theory: Classical actions

In general Yang-Mills theory [1] seems to be different from the dimensional reduced Kaluza–Klein theory. However, the historical account was that people tried to trace back the origin of non-Abelian …

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