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We review the AKSZ construction as applied to the topological open membranes and Poisson sigma models. We describe a generalization to open topological p-branes and Nambu-Poisson sigma models.
Novel M-theory approach classifies topological phases of matter.
problem Classifying and understanding topological phases of matter.
method Establishing a correspondence between (2+1)d topological field theories and non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds, identifying topological phases from internal wrapped 3-manifolds.
result Paves a new route toward the classification of topological phases of matter, including fermionic and non-unitary phases.
Observable structures of a topological field theory of AKSZ type are analyzed. From a double (or multiple) complex structure of observable algebras, new topological invariants are constructed. Especially, Donaldson polynomial invariants and their generalizations are constructed from a topological field theory of AKSZ t…
In these lecture notes we discuss a body of work in which Morse theory is used to construct various homology and cohomology operations. In the classical setting of algebraic topology this is done by constructing a moduli space of graph flows, using homotopy theoretic methods to construct a virtual fundamental class, an…
We construct infinitely many Legendrian links in the standard contact R3 with arbitrarily many topologically distinct Lagrangian fillings. The construction is used to find links in S3 that bound topologically distinct pieces of algebraic curves in B4⊂C2, is applied to find contact 3-…
Constructs flows on manifolds with small curvature, proving Euclidean topology.
problem Geometric structure of manifolds with unbounded curvature.
method Distance like functions with integral hessian bound, Ricci flows.
result Manifolds with Ricci lower bound, non-negative scalar curvature, bounded entropy, Ahlfors n-regular and small curvature concentration are topologically Euclidean.
We construct an elementary, combinatorial kind of topological quantum field theory, based on curves, surfaces, and orientations. The construction derives from contact invariants in sutured Floer homology and is essentially an elaboration of a TQFT defined by Honda--Kazez--Matic. This topological field theory stores inf…
Springer varieties appear in both geometric representation theory and knot theory. Motivated by knot theory and categorification Khovanov provides a topological construction of (n/2,n/2) Springer varieties. We extend Khovanov's construction to all two-row Springer varieties. Using the combinatorial and diagrammatic …
This paper focuses on a topological version on the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow mirror symmetry conjecture. Roughly put, the SYZ conjecture suggests that mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau manifolds are related by the existence of dual special Lagrangian torus fibrations. We explore this conjecture without reference to the special La…
Constructs new topological theories in 2D not fitting standard axioms.
problem Developing new topological theories in 2D that don't conform to traditional axioms.
method Universal construction by Blanchet et al., Kronecker's characterization, field extension, Hankel matrices, Schur polynomials, and foam evaluation.
result Introduction of non-multiplicative theories and classification over finite-dimensional state spaces.
To every oriented link L, we associate a topologically defined biquandle BL, which we call the topological biquandle of L. The construction of BL is similar to the topological description of the fundamental quandle given by Matveev. We find a presentation of the top…
We construct a gauge fixed action for topological membranes on G2-manifold such that its bosonic part is the standard membrane theory in a particular gauge. We prove that quantum mechanically the path-integral in this gauge localizes on associative submanifolds. Moreover on M×S1 the theory naturally reduces…
We show that infinitely many of the simply connected 4-manifolds constructed by Levine and Lidman that do not admit PL spines actually admit topological spines.
For groups of a topological origin, such as braid groups and mapping class groups, an important source of interesting and highly non-trivial representations is given by their actions on the twisted homology of associated spaces; these are known as homological representations. Representations of this kind have proved th…
New stable homotopy refinement of quantum annular Khovanov homology.
problem Quantum topological Hochschild homology and annular Khovanov spectra.
method Introducing quantum topological Hochschild homology (qTHH) and constructing a new stable homotopy refinement of quantum annular Khovanov homology.
result The new stable homotopy refinement agrees with qTHH of spectral Chen-Khovanov tangle bimodules and recovers earlier work.
We construct pairs of non-isometric hyperbolic 3-orbifolds with the same topological type and volume. Topologically these orbifolds are mapping tori of pseudo-Anosov maps of the surface of genus 2, with singular locus a fibred (hyperbolic) link with five components.
This is an introductory review of topological field theories (TFTs) called AKSZ sigma models. The AKSZ construction is a mathematical formulation for the construction and analyses of a large class of TFTs, inspired by the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism of gauge theories. We begin by considering a simple two-dimensional t…
Some generalizations and variations of the Fintushel-Stern rim surgery are known to produce smoothly knotted surfaces. We show that if the fundamental groups of their complements are cyclic, then these surfaces are topologically unknotted. Using a twist-spinning construction from high-dimensional knot theory, we constr…