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Topological entropy and renormalization group flow in 3-dimensional spherical spaces
We analyze the renormalization group (RG) flow of the temperature independent term of the entropy in the high temperature limit ß/a « 1 of a massive field theory in 3-dimensional spherical spaces, M 3, with constant curvature 6/a 2. For masses lower than 2p/ß , this term can be identified with the free energy of the same theory on M 3 considered as a 3-dimensional Euclidean space-time. The non-extensive part of this free energy, S hol, is generated by the holonomy of the spatial metric connection. We show that for homogeneous spherical spaces the holonomy entropy S hol decreases monotonically when the RG scale flows to the infrared. At the conformal fixed points the values of the holonomy entropy do coincide with the genuine topological entropies recently introduced. The monotonic behavior of the RG flow leads to an inequality between the topological entropies of the conformal field theories connected by such flow, i.e. S top UV¿>¿S top IR . From a 3-dimensional viewpoint the same term arises in the 3-dimensional Euclidean effective action and has the same monotonic behavior under the RG group flow. We conjecture that such monotonic behavior is generic, which would give rise to a 3-dimensional generalization of the c-theorem, along the lines of the 2-dimensional c-theorem and the 4-dimensional a-theorem. The conjecture is related to recent formulations of the F-theorem. In particular, the holonomy entropy on lens spaces is directly related to the topological Rényi entanglement entropy on disks of 2-dimensional flat spaces
On Codazzi tensors on a hyperbolic surface and flat Lorentzian geometry
Using global considerations, Mess proved that the moduli space of globally
hyperbolic flat Lorentzian structures on is the tangent
bundle of the Teichm\"uller space of , if is a closed surface. One of
the goals of this paper is to deepen this surprising occurrence and to make
explicit the relation between the Mess parameters and the embedding data of any
Cauchy surface. This relation is pointed out by using some specific properties
of Codazzi tensors on hyperbolic surfaces. As a by-product we get a new
Lorentzian proof of Goldman's celebrated result about the coincidence of the
Weil-Petersson symplectic form and the Goldman pairing.
In the second part of the paper we use this machinery to get a classification
of globally hyperbolic flat space-times with particles of angles in
containing a uniformly convex Cauchy surface. The analogue of Mess' result is
achieved showing that the corresponding moduli space is the tangent bundle of
the Teichm\"uller space of a punctured surface. To generalize the theory in the
case of particles, we deepen the study of Codazzi tensors on hyperbolic
surfaces with cone singularities, proving that the well-known decomposition of
a Codazzi tensor in a harmonic part and a trivial part can be generalized in
the context of hyperbolic metrics with cone singularities.Comment: 49 pages, 4 figure
On the Moduli Space of Singular Euclidean Surfaces
The goal of this paper is to develop some aspects of the deformation theory
of piecewise flat structures on surfaces and use this theory to construct new
geometric structures on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces.Comment: To appear in the Handbook of Teichmuller Theory, vol. 1, ed. A.
Papadopoulos, European Math. Society Series, 200
Curvature function and coarse graining
A classic theorem in the theory of connections on principal fiber bundles
states that the evaluation of all holonomy functions gives enough information
to characterize the bundle structure (among those sharing the same structure
group and base manifold) and the connection up to a bundle equivalence map.
This result and other important properties of holonomy functions has encouraged
their use as the primary ingredient for the construction of families of quantum
gauge theories. However, in these applications often the set of holonomy
functions used is a discrete proper subset of the set of holonomy functions
needed for the characterization theorem to hold. We show that the evaluation of
a discrete set of holonomy functions does not characterize the bundle and does
not constrain the connection modulo gauge appropriately.
We exhibit a discrete set of functions of the connection and prove that in
the abelian case their evaluation characterizes the bundle structure (up to
equivalence), and constrains the connection modulo gauge up to "local details"
ignored when working at a given scale. The main ingredient is the Lie algebra
valued curvature function defined below. It covers the holonomy
function in the sense that .Comment: 34 page
A tour on Hermitian symmetric manifolds
Hermitian symmetric manifolds are Hermitian manifolds which are homogeneous
and such that every point has a symmetry preserving the Hermitian structure.
The aim of these notes is to present an introduction to this important class of
manifolds, trying to survey the several different perspectives from which
Hermitian symmetric manifolds can be studied.Comment: 56 pages, expanded version. Written for the Proceedings of the
CIME-CIRM summer course "Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry". Comments are
still welcome
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