A unified interpretation of several combinatorial dualities

AbstractSeveral combinatorial structures exhibit a duality relation that yields interesting theorems, and, sometimes, useful explanations or interpretations of results that do not concern duality explicitly. We present a common characterization of the duality relations associated with matroids, clutters (Sperner families), oriented matroids, and weakly oriented matroids. The same conditions characterize the orthogonality relation on certain families of vector spaces. This leads to a notion of abstract duality

Multiplicative duality, q-triplet and (mu,nu,q)-relation derived from the one-to-one correspondence between the (mu,nu)-multinomial coefficient and Tsallis entropy Sq

We derive the multiplicative duality "q1/q" and other typical mathematical structures as the special cases of the (mu,nu,q)-relation behind Tsallis statistics by means of the (mu,nu)-multinomial coefficient. Recently the additive duality "q2-q" in Tsallis statistics is derived in the form of the one-to-one correspondence between the q-multinomial coefficient and Tsallis entropy. A slight generalization of this correspondence for the multiplicative duality requires the (mu,nu)-multinomial coefficient as a generalization of the q-multinomial coefficient. This combinatorial formalism provides us with the one-to-one correspondence between the (mu,nu)-multinomial coefficient and Tsallis entropy Sq, which determines a concrete relation among three parameters mu, nu and q, i.e., nu(1-mu)+1=q which is called "(mu,nu,q)-relation" in this paper. As special cases of the (mu,nu,q)-relation, the additive duality and the multiplicative duality are recovered when nu=1 and nu=q, respectively. As other special cases, when nu=2-q, a set of three parameters (mu,nu,q) is identified with the q-triplet (q_{sen},q_{rel},q_{stat}) recently conjectured by Tsallis. Moreover, when nu=1/q, the relation 1/(1-q_{sen})=1/alpha_{min}-1/alpha_{max} in the multifractal singularity spectrum f(alpha) is recovered by means of the (mu,nu,q)-relation.Comment: 20 page

Higher Cluster Categories and QFT Dualities

We present a unified mathematical framework that elegantly describes minimally SUSY gauge theories in even dimension, ranging from $6d$ to $0d$, and their dualities. This approach combines recent developments on graded quiver with potentials, higher Ginzburg algebras and higher cluster categories (also known as $m$-cluster categories). Quiver mutations studied in the context of mathematics precisely correspond to the order $(m+1)$ dualities of the gauge theories. Our work suggests that these equivalences of quiver gauge theories sit inside an infinite family of such generalized dualities, whose physical interpretation is yet to be understood.Comment: 61 pages, 30 figure

Quantum Gravity

General lectures on quantum gravity.Comment: Lectures given at Karpacz. 40 pages, submitted to Lecture Notes in Physics. Bigger figure

Embedding Fractional Quantum Hall Solitons in M-theory Compactifications

We engineer U(1)^n Chern-Simons type theories describing fractional quantum Hall solitons (QHS) in 1+2 dimensions from M-theory compactified on eight dimensional hyper-K\"{a}hler manifolds as target space of N=4 sigma model. Based on M-theory/Type IIA duality, the systems can be modeled by considering D6-branes wrapping intersecting Hirzebruch surfaces F_0's arranged as ADE Dynkin Diagrams and interacting with higher dimensional R-R gauge fields. In the case of finite Dynkin quivers, we recover well known values of the filling factor observed experimentally including Laughlin, Haldane and Jain series.Comment: Latex, 14 pages. Modified version, to appear in IJGMM

BPS states in the Omega-background and torus knots

We clarify some issues concerning the central charges saturated by the extended objects in the SUSY $U(1)$ $4d$ gauge theory in the $\Omega$-background. The configuration involving the monopole localized at the domain wall is considered in some details. At the rational ratio $\frac{\epsilon_1}{\epsilon_2}=\frac{p}{q}$ the trajectory of the monopole provides the torus $(p,q)$ knot in the squashed three-sphere. Using the relation between the integrable systems of Calogero type at the rational couplings and the torus knots we interpret this configuration in terms of the auxiliary $2d$ quiver theory or $3d$ theory with nontrivial boundary conditions. This realization can be considered as the AGT-like representation of the torus knot invariants.Comment: 39 pages, 6 figure