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Construction of Negatively Curved Cubic Carbon Crystals via Standard Realizations
We constructed physically stable sp2 negatively curved cubic carbon
structures which reticulate a Schwarz P-like surface. The method for
constructing such crystal structures is based on the notion of the standard
realization of abstract crystal lattices. In this paper, we expound on the
mathematical method to construct such crystal structures
Topology of Fermi Surfaces and anomaly inflows
We derive a rigorous classification of topologically stable Fermi surfaces of
non-interacting, discrete translation-invariant systems from electronic band
theory, adiabatic evolution and their topological interpretations. For systems
on an infinite crystal it is shown that there can only be topologically
unstable Fermi surfaces. For systems on a half- space and with a gapped bulk,
our derivation naturally yields a -theory classification. Given the
-dimensional surface Brillouin zone of a -dimensional
half-space, our result implies that different classes of globally stable Fermi
surfaces belong in for systems with only
discrete translation-invariance. This result has a chiral anomaly inflow
interpretation, as it reduces to the spectral flow for . Through
equivariant homotopy methods we extend these results for symmetry classes
and and discuss their corresponding anomaly inflow
interpretation.Comment: Removed Born-von Karman boundary conditions for and
and includes the 'weak' topological phase
found by Kitaev for $\Xi^2 = I, d= 2
Surface embedding, topology and dualization for spin networks
Spin networks are graphs derived from 3nj symbols of angular momentum. The
surface embedding, the topology and dualization of these networks are
considered. Embeddings into compact surfaces include the orientable sphere S^2
and the torus T, and the not orientable projective space P^2 and Klein's bottle
K. Two families of 3nj graphs admit embeddings of minimal genus into S^2 and
P^2. Their dual 2-skeletons are shown to be triangulations of these surfaces.Comment: LaTeX 17 pages, 6 eps figures (late submission to arxiv.org
Dimension on Discrete Spaces
In this paper we develop some combinatorial models for continuous spaces. In
this spirit we study the approximations of continuous spaces by graphs,
molecular spaces and coordinate matrices. We define the dimension on a discrete
space by means of axioms, and the axioms are based on an obvious geometrical
background. This work presents some discrete models of n-dimensional Euclidean
spaces, n-dimensional spheres, a torus and a projective plane. It explains how
to construct new discrete spaces and describes in this connection several
three-dimensional closed surfaces with some topological singularities
It also analyzes the topology of (3+1)-spacetime. We are also discussing the
question by R. Sorkin [19] about how to derive the system of simplicial
complexes from a system of open covering of a topological space S.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, Latex. Figures are not included, available from
the author upon request. Preprint SU-GP-93/1-1. To appear in "International
Journal of Theoretical Physics
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