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Topological signatures in CMB temperature anisotropy maps
We propose an alternative formalism to simulate CMB temperature maps in
CDM universes with nontrivial spatial topologies. This formalism
avoids the need to explicitly compute the eigenmodes of the Laplacian operator
in the spatial sections. Instead, the covariance matrix of the coefficients of
the spherical harmonic decomposition of the temperature anisotropies is
expressed in terms of the elements of the covering group of the space. We
obtain a decomposition of the correlation matrix that isolates the topological
contribution to the CMB temperature anisotropies out of the simply connected
contribution. A further decomposition of the topological signature of the
correlation matrix for an arbitrary topology allows us to compute it in terms
of correlation matrices corresponding to simpler topologies, for which closed
quadrature formulae might be derived. We also use this decomposition to show
that CMB temperature maps of (not too large) multiply connected universes must
show ``patterns of alignment'', and propose a method to look for these
patterns, thus opening the door to the development of new methods for detecting
the topology of our Universe even when the injectivity radius of space is
slightly larger than the radius of the last scattering surface. We illustrate
all these features with the simplest examples, those of flat homogeneous
manifolds, i.e., tori, with special attention given to the cylinder, i.e.,
topology.Comment: 25 pages, 7 eps figures, revtex4, submitted to PR
Spherical Orbifolds for Cosmic Topology
Harmonic analysis is a tool to infer cosmic topology from the measured
astrophysical cosmic microwave background CMB radiation. For overall positive
curvature, Platonic spherical manifolds are candidates for this analysis. We
combine the specific point symmetry of the Platonic manifolds with their deck
transformations. This analysis in topology leads from manifolds to orbifolds.
We discuss the deck transformations of the orbifolds and give eigenmodes for
the harmonic analysis as linear combinations of Wigner polynomials on the
3-sphere. These provide new tools for detecting cosmic topology from the CMB
radiation.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1011.427
Defect Perturbations in Landau-Ginzburg Models
Perturbations of B-type defects in Landau-Ginzburg models are considered. In
particular, the effect of perturbations of defects on their fusion is analyzed
in the framework of matrix factorizations. As an application, it is discussed
how fusion with perturbed defects induces perturbations on boundary conditions.
It is shown that in some classes of models all boundary perturbations can be
obtained in this way. Moreover, a universal class of perturbed defects is
constructed, whose fusion under certain conditions obey braid relations. The
functors obtained by fusing these defects with boundary conditions are twist
functors as introduced in the work of Seidel and Thomas.Comment: 46 page
Problems on Polytopes, Their Groups, and Realizations
The paper gives a collection of open problems on abstract polytopes that were
either presented at the Polytopes Day in Calgary or motivated by discussions at
the preceding Workshop on Convex and Abstract Polytopes at the Banff
International Research Station in May 2005.Comment: 25 pages (Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, Special Issue on Discrete
Geometry, to appear
Electro and magneto statics of topological insulators as modeled by planar, spherical and cylindrical boundaries: Green function approach
The Green function (GF) method is used to analyze the boundary effects
produced by a Chern Simons (CS) extension to electrodynamics. We consider the
electromagnetic field coupled to a term that is piecewise constant in
different regions of space, separated by a common interface , the
boundary, model which we will refer to as electrodynamics
( ED). This model provides a correct low energy effective action for
describing topological insulators (TI). In this work we construct the static GF
in ED for different geometrical configurations of the
boundary, namely: planar, spherical and cylindrical interfaces. Also
we adapt the standard Green theorem to include the effects of the
boundary. These are the most important results of our work, since they allow to
obtain the corresponding static electric and magnetic fields for arbitrary
sources and arbitrary boundary conditions in the given geometries. Also, the
method provides a well defined starting point for either analytical or
numerical approximations in the cases where the exact analytical calculations
are not possible. Explicit solutions for simple cases in each of the
aforementioned geometries for boundaries are provided. The adapted
Green theorem is illustrated by studying the problem of a point like electric
charge interacting with a planar TI with prescribed boundary conditions. Our
generalization, when particularized to specific cases, is successfully compared
with previously reported results, most of which have been obtained by using the
methods of images.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in PRD. arXiv admin
note: text overlap with arXiv:1511.0117
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