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Harmonic gauge simplifies geometric analysis of Riemannian metrics.

3D gauge theories link knot polynomials to vortex partition functions.

Researchers construct a gauge-invariant energy functional for axially symmetric perturbations around Kerr black holes.

L-CNNs preserve gauge symmetry in lattice simulations.

Study connects Gaussian processes and regularization for sequence-function mappings.

L-CNNs learn gauge invariant quantities on lattices.

We study some graded geometric constructions appearing naturally in the context of gauge theories. Inspired by a known relation of gauging with equivariant cohomology we generalize the latter notion to the case of arbitrary Q-manifolds introducing thus the concept of equivariant Q-cohomology. Using this concept we desc…

New method approximates partition function of graphical models using gauge functions and polynomials.

The paper generalizes inequalities on almost Kähler manifolds.

Study of $U(1)$ gauge theories on $G_2$ manifolds, including instantons and Chern-Simons.

Chern-Simons theory on Seifert 3-manifolds evaluated.

Study of gauge-theoretic functionals leading to constant scalar curvature almost-Kahler 4-manifolds.

Generalizes skyrmion theory to gauged maps with $G$-action.

Local gauge freedom in relativistic quantum mechanics is derived from a measurement principle for space and time. For the Dirac equation, one obtains local U(2,2) gauge transformations acting on the spinor index of the wave functions. This local U(2,2) symmetry allows a unified description of electrodynamics and genera…

Considering that the Seiberg-Witten functional satisfies the Palais-Smale Condition, up to gauge equivalence, the Minimax Principle can be applied on the moduli space to prove the existence of critical points, which correspond to solutions of the second-order SW-equations, up to gauge equivalence.

Study boundary structure of gauge fields on AdS spaces.

Study gauged supergravity, M5-branes, and class R theories, constraining supergravity coefficients and calculating partition functions.

Study of Chern-Simons theory and link invariants using gauge fields and skein relations.

New model calculates Wilson surfaces in higher gauge theory.

We study the gradient flow lines of a Yang-Mills-type functional on the space of gauged holomorphic maps $\mathcal{H}(P,X)$, where $P$ is a principal bundle on a Riemann surface $Σ$ and $X$ is a Kähler Hamiltonian $G$-manifold. For compact $Σ$, possibly with boundary, we prove long time existence of the gradient flow. …

Solves the gauge problem in diffeomorphisms for non-compact spaces.

Computing the partition function $Z$ of a discrete graphical model is a fundamental inference challenge. Since this is computationally intractable, variational approximations are often used in practice. Recently, so-called gauge transformations were used to improve variational lower bounds on $Z$. In this paper, we pro…

L-CNNs approximate gauge actions, revealing fixed points with no lattice artifacts.

Computing partition function is the most important statistical inference task arising in applications of Graphical Models (GM). Since it is computationally intractable, approximate methods have been used to resolve the issue in practice, where mean-field (MF) and belief propagation (BP) are arguably the most popular an…

In this paper we introduce and study some mathematical structures on top of transitive Lie algebroids in order to formulate gauge theories in terms of generalized connections and their curvature: metrics, Hodge star operator and integration along the algebraic part of the transitive Lie algebroid (its kernel). Explicit…

A refined expression for the Faddeev-Popov determinant is derived for gauge theories quantised around a reducible classical solution. We apply this result to Chern-Simons perturbation theory on compact spacetime 3-manifolds with quantisation around an arbitrary flat gauge field isolated up to gauge transformations, poi…

In this paper we consider the field equations for linearized gravity and other integer spin fields on the Kerr spacetime, and more generally on spacetimes of Petrov type D. We give a derivation, using the GHP formalism, of decoupled field equations for the linearized Weyl scalars for all spin weights and identify the g…

Survey of mathematical developments in gauge theory using thin homotopy.

The gauge principle is at the heart of a good part of fundamental physics: Starting with a group G of so-called rigid symmetries of a functional defined over space-time Sigma, the original functional is extended appropriately by additional Lie(G)-valued 1-form gauge fields so as to lift the symmetry to Maps(Sigma,G). P…

Researchers developed a rigorous mathematical formulation of functional integration for fields on paracompact manifolds.

The correlation functions of supersymmetric gauge theories on a four-manifold X can sometimes be expressed in terms of topological invariants of X. We show how the existence of superconformal fixed points in the gauge theory can provide nontrivial information about four-manifold topology. In particular, in the example …

We study the propagation of bosonic strings in singular target space-times. For describing this, we assume this target space to be the quotient of a smooth manifold $M$ by a singular foliation ${\cal F}$ on it. Using the technical tool of a gauge theory, we propose a smooth functional for this scenario, such that the p…

This paper approximates SU(2) Chern-Simons theory using finite group gauge theories.

Signed-permutation coordinate transport improves model alignment across checkpoints.

Solves the gauge problem for Ricci flow cylinders, proving strong rigidity.

We propose a dictionary between geometry of triangulated 3-manifolds and physics of three-dimensional N=2 gauge theories. Under this duality, standard operations on triangulated 3-manifolds and various invariants thereof (classical as well as quantum) find a natural interpretation in field theory. For example, independ…

We present a simple way of generating the infinite set of Jacobi tensors, compatible with a given one, via the "gauge transformations" of the functions on Jacobi manifold. We consider also some applications of this result to the construction of bi-Hamiltonian systems on Jacobi manifolds.

Given a J-holomorphic Morse function on a symplectic manifold, a new construction of the Fukaya-Seidel category is outlined. Applying this construction in an infinite dimensional case, a Fukaya-Seidel-type category is associated to a smooth three-manifold. In this case the construction is based on a five-dimensional ga…

The paper studies gauge fields on coherent sheaves and their Yang-Mills properties.

The paper provides formulas linking knot invariants to deformation quantization.

There are two families of Donaldson invariants for the complex projective plane, corresponding to the SU(2)-gauge theory and the SO(3)-gauge theory with non-trivial Stiefel-Whitney class. In 1997 Moore and Witten conjectured that the regularized u-plane integral on the complex projective plane gives the generating func…

Physics-inspired methods optimize SVD compression of LLMs.

Study of gauge theory blowups and Painlevé VI identity.

The semiclassical approximation for the partition function in Chern-Simons gauge theory is derived using the invariant integration method. Volume and scale factors which were undetermined and had to be fixed by hand in previous derivations are automatically taken account of in this framework. Agreement with Witten's ex…

A classic theorem in the theory of connections on principal fiber bundles states that the evaluation of all holonomy functions gives enough information to characterize the bundle structure (among those sharing the same structure group and base manifold) and the connection up to a bundle equivalence map. This result and…

This paper is an exposition of the relationship between Witten's Chern-Simons functional integral and the theory of Vassiliev Invariants of knots and links in three dimensional space. We conceptualize the functional integral in terms of equivalence classes of functionals of gauge fields and we do not use measure theory…

Solves Einstein vacuum equations gluing problem for close Minkowski data.

We find canonical gauges for higher gauge theories in 2- and 3-gauge theories.