arXiv research

The Langlands Program was launched in the late 60s with the goal of relating Galois representations and automorphic forms. In recent years a geometric version has been developed which leads to a mysterious duality between certain categories of sheaves on moduli spaces of (flat) bundles on algebraic curves. Three years …

The seven non euclidean geometries of the Thurston's geometrization program are proved to originate naturally from singularization morphisms and versal deformations on euclidean 3-manifolds generated in the frame of the Langlands global program. The Poincare conjecture for a 3-manifold appears as a particular case of t…

Established a correspondence between Higgs bundles and Bogomolny equations.

We study the moduli spaces of flat SL(r)- and PGL(r)-connections, or equivalently, Higgs bundles, on an algebraic curve. These spaces are noncompact Calabi-Yau orbifolds; we show that they can be regarded as mirror partners in two different senses. First, they satisfy the requirements laid down by Strominger-Yau-Zaslow…

String theory connects lattice models, links, and geometric Langlands.

A theory linking invariants, Floer homologies, and Higgs bundles.

Paper describes integrable structure of Hitchin moduli spaces.

Shelstad's character identity is an equality between sums of characters of tempered representations in corresponding $L$-packets of two real, semisimple, linear, algebraic groups that are inner forms to each other. We reconstruct this character identity in the case of the discrete series, using index theory of elliptic…

The purpose of this note is to present a short elementary proof of a theorem due to Faltings and Laumon, saying that the global nilpotent cone is a Lagrangian substack in the cotangent bundle of the moduli space of G-bundles on a complex compact curve. This result plays a crucial role in the Geometric Langlands program…

We construct and study a closed, two-dimensional, quasi-topological (0,2) gauged sigma model with target space a smooth G-manifold, where G is any compact and connected Lie group. When the target space is a flag manifold of simple G, and the gauge group is a Cartan subgroup thereof, the perturbative model describes, pu…

Revisits Vafa-Witten theory, deriving new invariants and homologies.

Through Cayley and Langlands type correspondences, we give a geometric description of the moduli spaces of real orthogonal and symplectic Higgs bundles of any signature in the regular fibres of the Hitchin fibration. As applications of our methods, we complete the concrete abelianization of real slices corresponding to…

Study skein modules via gauge theory, finding non-TQFT dimensions.

Constructs Lagrangian correspondences for Higgs bundles and holomorphic connections.

We give a geometric characterisation of the topological invariants associated to SO(m,m+1)-Higgs bundles through KO-theory and the Langlands correspondence between orthogonal and symplectic Hitchin systems. By defining the split orthogonal spectral data, we obtain a natural grading of the moduli space of SO(m,m+1)-Higg…

New probabilistic method constructs Kähler-Einstein metrics and suggests zero-free properties of zeta functions.

This paper constructs cohomological Hall algebras for 3-Calabi-Yau categories.

New Langlands duality conjectures for 3-manifold skein modules.

This article addresses the question of whether Langlands duality for complex reductive Lie groups may be implemented by T-dualization. We prove that for reductive groups whose simple factors are of Dynkin type A, D, or E, the answer is yes.

S-dual of Hamiltonian spaces connects to Langlands duality.

The paper explores gauge theory invariants and their duals via topological-holomorphic twist.

Given a compact Riemann surface $X$ and a complex reductive Lie group $G$ equipped with real structures, we define antiholomorphic involutions on the moduli space of $G$-Higgs bundles over $X$. We investigate how the various components of the fixed point locus match up, as one passes from $G$ to its Langlands dual $^LG…

5D gauge theories are dual to 3D and 2D models via Floer homologies.

Study q-series for 3-manifolds with line defects, proving homomorphism and conjecturing holomorphic modularity.

This paper connects symplectic and Kähler manifolds via brane quantization.

Defines and parametrizes $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$-type singular fibres in symplectic and odd orthogonal Hitchin systems.

Geometric programming approach for traffic equilibrium problems.

The paper studies cohomological Donaldson-Thomas theory for local systems on a 3-torus.

We investigate a question of Cooper adjacent to the Virtual Haken Conjecture. Assuming certain conjectures in number theory, we show that there exist hyperbolic rational homology 3-spheres with arbitrarily large injectivity radius. These examples come from a tower of abelian covers of an explicit arithmetic 3-manifold.…

One can realize higher laminations as positive configurations of points in the affine building. The duality pairings of Fock and Goncharov give pairings between higher laminations for two Langlands dual groups $G$ and $G^{\vee}$. These pairings are a generalization of the intersection pairing between measured laminatio…

New quantum integrals discovered for a spin chain model.

The paper decomposes spectral functions on marked tori strata.

We give a brief survey of Hamilton's program for 3-manifolds as an approach toward Thurston's Geometrization Conjectre.

The paper integrates Rota-Baxter Lie algebras into Lie group structures and geometries.

We study twisted N=2 superconformal gauge theory on a product of two Riemann surfaces Sigma and C. The twisted theory is topological along C and holomorphic along Sigma and does not depend on the gauge coupling or theta-angle. Upon Kaluza-Klein reduction along Sigma, it becomes equivalent to a topological B-model on C …

Bootstrap bounds on Einstein manifolds using semidefinite programming.

Recently, Ian Agol introduced a class of "veering" ideal triangulations for mapping tori of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of surfaces punctured along the singular points. These triangulations have very special combinatorial properties, and Agol asked if these are "geometric", i.e. realised in the complete hyperbolic met…

Researchers construct a probabilistic model for a WZW theory on hyperbolic space and link it to Liouville theory.

This survey was written for the Current Developments in Mathematics conference, 2012, and is an updating of my article "The Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture: From torus fibrations to degenerations," in the Seattle 2005 proceedings. We trace progress and thinking about the SYZ conjecture since its introduction in 1996. …

Convex regression is a promising area for bridging statistical estimation and deterministic convex optimization. New piecewise linear convex regression methods are fast and scalable, but can have instability when used to approximate constraints or objective functions for optimization. Ensemble methods, like bagging, sm…

This article is based upon lectures given at the 2013 IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute summer program in geometric analysis.

This paper presents geometrical foundation for a systematic treatment of three main (elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic) types of analytic function theories based on the representation theory of SL(2,R) group. We describe here geometries of corresponding domains. The principal role is played by Clifford algebras of mat…

Many practical techniques for probabilistic inference require a sequence of distributions that interpolate between a tractable distribution and an intractable distribution of interest. Usually, the sequences used are simple, e.g., based on geometric averages between distributions. When models are expressed as probabili…

Novel gauge-theoretic Floer homologies defined from 5d N=2 theory, linking 4, 3, and 2-manifolds.

SketchGraphs dataset aids in modeling CAD designs.

Geometrization Theorem solves complex geometry problems.

We prove a number of results relating various measures (volume, Legendrian index, stability index, and spectral curve genus) of the geometric complexity of special Lagrangian $T^2$-cones. We explain how these results fit into a program to understand the "most common" three-dimensional isolated singularities of special …

The paper explores actions on metric spaces similar to 3D manifolds, proving rigidity results.