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Regarding a possible duality between (2+1)D gravity and Chern-Simons Theory
Is there a duality between (2+1)D gravity and Chern-Simons Theory? Or they merely have related features? If so, of which type and why?
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Does topological mass imply preservation of global symmetry whose current is topological?
This question is general but the motivation for it lies within the paper "A Duality Web in 2+1 Dimensions and Condensed Matter Physics". On pages 20-23, they consider a system which has four phases ...
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Why does a monopole operator break the global symmetry with topological current?
I am currently reading the paper "A Duality Web in 2+ 1 Dimensions and Condensed Matter Physics" by Seiberg et al, and on page 22 they add to the Lagrangian a monopole operator of the form $\phi^{\...
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Possible string duality example?
One can consider the Calabi-Yau threefold K3$\times E$ where the Donaldson-Thomas theory is conjectured to be the (inverse of) the Igusa cusp form $\chi_{10}(q,y,p)$. The variables $q,y,p$ aren't ...
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Yang-Mills/topological string theory (M-theory) duality
It is known that there is a duality between Chern-Simons theory on 3-fold $X$ and topological A-model on the cotangent bundle of this manifold, $T^*X$ (see, for example, the original paper by Witten, ...
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Mathematical content of Thirring/Sine-Gordon duality
I'm a mathematician who is intrigued by the duality between the Thirring and Sine-Gordon models as established by Sidney Coleman.
Can someone explain the mathematical content of this duality to me? (...
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Kalb-Ramond action and topological string radiation
Let's have simple scalar $\Phi$ action involves spontaneously symmetry breaking in a form
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\tag 1 S = \int d^{4}x\left( |\partial_{\mu}\psi|^{2} + \psi^{2}|\partial_{\mu}\theta |^{2} - \frac{\lambda}...
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Intuition for Homological Mirror Symmetry
first of all, I need to confess my ignorance concerning physics since I'm a mathematician. I'm interested in the physical intuition of the Langlands program, therefore I need to understand what ...
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About the duality when embedding Gopakumar-Vafa into superstring theory
Vafa proposed a duality when embedding the Gopakumar-Vafa duality into superstring theory. Vafa's duality is about a correspondence N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory and superstring propagating on ...
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