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2-Group Representations for Spin Foams
Just as 3d state sum models, including 3d quantum gravity, can be built using
categories of group representations, "2-categories of 2-group representations"
may provide interesting state sum models for 4d quantum topology, if not
quantum gravity. Here we focus on the "Euclidean 2-group", built from the
rotation group SO(4) and its action on the group of translations of 4d
Euclidean space. We explain its infinite-dimensional unitary representations,
and construct a model based on the resulting representation 2-category. This
model, with clear geometric content and explicit "metric data" on triangulation
edges, shows up naturally in an attempt to write the amplitudes of ordinary
quantum field theory in a background independent way.Comment: 8 pages; to appear in proceedings of the XXV Max Born Symposium: "The
Planck Scale", Wroclaw, Polan
Towards a dual spin network basis for (3+1)d lattice gauge theories and topological phases
Using a recent strategy to encode the space of flat connections on a
three-manifold with string-like defects into the space of flat connections on a
so-called 2d Heegaard surface, we propose a novel way to define gauge invariant
bases for (3+1)d lattice gauge theories and gauge models of topological phases.
In particular, this method reconstructs the spin network basis and yields a
novel dual spin network basis. While the spin network basis allows to interpret
states in terms of electric excitations, on top of a vacuum sharply peaked on a
vanishing electric field, the dual spin network basis describes magnetic (or
curvature) excitations, on top of a vacuum sharply peaked on a vanishing
magnetic field (or flat connection). This technique is also applicable for
manifolds with boundaries. We distinguish in particular a dual pair of boundary
conditions, namely of electric type and of magnetic type. This can be used to
consider a generalization of Ocneanu's tube algebra in order to reveal the
algebraic structure of the excitations associated with certain 3d manifolds.Comment: 45 page
Supersymmetric holography on AdS3
The proposed duality between Vasiliev's supersymmetric higher spin theory on
AdS3 and the 't Hooft limit of the 2d superconformal Kazama-Suzuki models is
analysed in detail. In particular, we show that the partition functions of the
two theories agree in the large N limit.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figures, improved fig.
Strong charge-transfer excitonic effects and Bose-Einstein exciton-condensate in graphane
Using first principles many-body theory methods (GW+BSE) we demonstrate that
optical properties of graphane are dominated by localized charge-transfer
excitations governed by enhanced electron correlations in a two-dimensional
dielectric medium. Strong electron-hole interaction leads to the appearance of
small radius bound excitons with spatially separated electron and hole, which
are localized out-of-plane and in-plane, respectively. The presence of such
bound excitons opens the path on excitonic Bose-Einstein condensate in graphane
that can be observed experimentally.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Monopole Bubbling via String Theory
In this paper, we propose a string theory description of generic 't Hooft
defects in supersymmetric gauge theories. We show that
the space of supersymmetric ground states is given by the moduli space of
singular monopoles and that in this setting, Kronheimer's correspondence is
realized as T-duality. We conjecture that this brane configuration can be used
to study the full dynamics of monopole bubbling.Comment: 46 pages plus Appendi
Nuclei with Tetrahedral Symmetry
We discuss a point-group-theory based method of searching for new regions of
nuclear stability. We illustrate the related strategy with realistic
calculations employing the tetrahedral and the octahedral point groups. In
particular, several nuclei in the Rare Earth region appear as excellent
candidates to study the new mechanism.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, submitted to International Journal of Modern
Physics
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