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Revises super unitary representations by relaxing Hilbert space definition.

Researchers extend geometric quantization to complex Abelian Lie supergroups.

Extends Wigner's representation to study super hyperbolic geometry.

New geometric quantisation scheme for hyper-Kähler manifolds.

Researchers describe unitary representations of mixed braid groups.

New unitary representations for mapping class groups without almost invariant vectors.

This paper introduces a submanifold of the moduli space of unitary representations of the fundamental group of a punctured sphere with fixed local monodromy. The submanifold is defined via products of involutions through Lagrangian subspaces. We show that the moduli space of Lagrangian representations is a Lagrangian s…

Bismut and Zhang computed the ratio of the Ray-Singer and the combinatorial torsions corresponding to non-unitary representations of the fundamental group. In this note we show that for representations which belong to a connected component containing a unitary representation the Bismut-Zhang formula follows rather easi…

Study asymptotics of unitary matrix elements in quantum mechanics.

We construct projective unitary representations of the smooth Deligne cohomology group of a compact oriented Riemannian manifold of dimension 4k+1, generalizing positive energy representations of the loop group of the circle. We also classify such representations under a certain condition. The number of the equivalence…

New unitary representations constructed for complex nilmanifolds.

We formulate the unitary rational orbifold conformal field theories in the algebraic quantum field theory framework. Under general conditions, we show that the orbifold of a given unitary rational conformal field theories generates a unitary modular category. Many new unitary modular categories are obtained. We also sh…

Solved a specific case of Salter's question on Burau representation.

Holomorphic Higgs bundles on Teichmüller space for surface groups.

Given an irreducible unitary representation of a cocompact lattice of SL(2,C), we explicitly write down a solution of the Strominger system of equations. These solutions satisfy the equation of motion, and the underlying holomorphic vector bundles are stable.

Classifies matrices in the quaternionic hyperbolic unitary group.

Study on random representations of surface groups into SU(n), focusing on asymptotic expansions.

Minimal energy local systems on curves are compact components of character varieties.

New unitary representations for Thompson's group V and virtual links.

A non-singular sesquilinear form is constructed that is preserved by the Lawrence-Krammer representation. It is shown that if the polynomial variables q and t of the Lawrence-Krammer representation are chosen to be appropriate algebraically independant unit complex numbers, then the form is negative-definite Hermitian.…

This is a second paper in a series devoted to the minimal unitary representation of O(p,q). By explicit methods from conformal geometry of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, we find the branching law corresponding to restricting the minimal unitary representation to natural symmetric subgroups. In the case of purely discrete…

Random representations of surface groups approach asymptotic freeness in large $n$ limit.

New polynomial connects knot genus to 3-manifold geometry.

In a "naive" attempt to create algebraic quantum field theories on the circle, we obtain a family of unitary representations of Thompson's groups T and F for any subfactor. The Thompson group elements are the "local scale transformations" of the theory. In a simple case the coefficients of the representations are polyn…

We use quantum invariants to define an analytic family of representations for the mapping class group of a punctured surface. The representations depend on a complex number A with |A| <= 1 and act on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. They are unitary when A is real or imaginary, bounded when |A|<1, and only densel…

Researchers compute determinants and torsions of Rumin complex in specific Lie group representations.

UGConvs improve CNN accuracy with unitary transforms.

We define the twisted Blanchfield pairing of a symmetric triad of chain complexes over a group ring Z[G], together with a unitary representation of G over an Ore domain with involution. We prove that the pairing is sesquilinear, and we prove that it is hermitian and nonsingular under certain extra conditions. A twisted…

Recurrent neural networks are powerful models for processing sequential data, but they are generally plagued by vanishing and exploding gradient problems. Unitary recurrent neural networks (uRNNs), which use unitary recurrence matrices, have recently been proposed as a means to avoid these issues. However, in previous …

A new image representation method using hypernetworks.

We show that the Lawrence--Krammer representation is unitary. We explicitly present the non-singular matrix representing the sesquilinear pairing invariant under the action. We show that reversing the orientation of a braid is equivalent to the transposition of its Lawrence--Krammer matrix followed by a certain conjuga…

This is the first in a series of papers devoted to an analogue of the metaplectic representation, namely, the minimal unitary representation of an indefinite orthogonal group; this representation corresponds to the minimal nilpotent coadjoint orbit in the philosophy of Kirillov-Kostant. We begin by applying methods fro…

Paper approximates the image of the Burau representation using filtrations.

Updates and rewrites a 1974 AMS Memoir on Lie groups.

New formula connects surface singularity zeta function to Reidemeister-Turaev torsion.

We study a particular class of representations from the fundamental groups of punctured spheres $Σ_{0,n}$ to the group $\text{PSL} (2,\mathbb R)$ (and their moduli spaces), that we call \emph{super-maximal}. Super-maximal representations are shown to be \emph{totally non hyperbolic}, in the sense that every simple clos…

The paper explores proper actions and their relation to representation theory, with new quantitative methods.

This is a short version of math.DG/0505537. For an acyclic representation of the fundamental group of a compact oriented odd-dimensional manifold, which is close enough to a unitary representation, we define a refinement of the Ray-Singer torsion associated to this representation. This new invariant can be viewed as an…

Cochran, Orr and Teichner introduced $L^2$--eta--invariants to detect highly non--trivial examples of non slice knots. Using a recent theorem by Lück and Schick we show that their metabelian $L^2$--eta--invariants can be viewed as the limit of finite dimensional unitary representations. We recall a ribbon obstruction t…

Main Theorem (3.3): Let $M$ be a compact four-dimensional manifold either with curvature, positive on complex isotropic two-planes, or self-dual of positive scalar curvature. If $π_1 (M)$ admits a nontrivial unitary representation, and $M$ is orientable, then there exists a surjective homomorphism from $π_1 (M)$ on $\b…

Study shows mapping class group action is ergodic on specific representations.

New representations of loop braid group from higher gauge theory effects.

Using unitary (instead of general) matrices in artificial neural networks (ANNs) is a promising way to solve the gradient explosion/vanishing problem, as well as to enable ANNs to learn long-term correlations in the data. This approach appears particularly promising for Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). In this work, w…

We determine which 3-manifolds admit a unitary representation such that the corresponding twisted chain complex is acyclic.

Mackey showed that for a compact Lie group $K$, the pair $(K,C^{0}(K))$ has a unique non-trivial irreducible covariant pair of representations. We study the relevance of this result to the unitary equivalence of quantizations for an infinite-dimensional family of $K\times K$ invariant polarizations on $T^{\ast}K$. The …

For an acyclic representation of the fundamental group of a compact oriented odd-dimensional manifold, which is close enough to a unitary representation, we define a refinement of the Ray-Singer torsion associated to this representation. This new invariant can be viewed as an analytic counterpart of the refined combina…

Study on learning quantum dynamics without direct interaction.

Let M be a simply connected Riemannian symmetric space, with at most one flat direction. We show that every Riemannian (or unitary) vector bundle with parallel curvature over M is an associated vector bundle of a canonical principal bundle, with the connection inherited from the principal bundle. The problem of finding…