Higher Dimensional Generalization Research Articles

Field theory for superconducting branes and generalized particle-vortex duality

Abstract We propose a field theory of closed p-brane Cp interacting with a (p + 1)-form gauge field Ap+1. This is a generalization of the Ginzburg-Landau theory (Abelian-Higgs model) for superconducting particles to higher-dimensional superconducting branes. A higher-form gauge invariant action is constructed by utilizing the Area derivative, which is a higher-dimensional generalization of the ordinary derivative. We find that the fundamental phenomena of superconductivity, such as the Meisser effect, topological defects, topological order, are naturally extended in the brane-field theory. We explicitly construct a topologically non-trivial static configuration that is characterized by the first homotopy group. Then, we calculate the low-energy effective theory in the presence of the topological defect and find that it is described by a BF-type topological field theory coupled with the world-volume of the topological defect. We also discuss a potential duality between the superconducting brane-field model and a brane-field model with a global U(1) higher-form symmetry as a generalization of the Particle-Vortex duality.

Thin-shell wormholes with non-collapsing dark energy throats connecting flat Minkowski spacetimes

This research revisits the thin-shell wormhole connecting two Minkowski spacetimes — originally introduced by Matt Visser. Upon setting a particular timelike hypersurface with a de-sitter-induced line element, the corresponding thin-shell wormhole (TSW) possesses a minimum radius and a uniform surface energy–momentum tensor in the form of dark energy. The bounded from below radius for the throat implies that it does not collapse. The r−τ profile curve of the hypersurface is a Catenary in r−τ plane where r and τ are the radial coordinate and the proper time on the throat, respectively. It is also shown that while the throat is dynamic, the surface energy–momentum tensor of the dark energy is in the form of an effective cosmological constant in the spherically symmetric TSW. The 4-dimensional cylindrically symmetric TSW with a similar throat profile shares the same features as its spherical counterpart, however, its uniform surface energy–momentum tensor does not mimic an effective cosmological constant. The higher-dimensional generalization of the spherically symmetric TSW admits the same properties as in the 4-dimensional one.

Eguchi–Hanson metrics arising from Kähler–Einstein edge metrics

Calabi–Hirzebruch manifolds are higher-dimensional generalizations of both the football and Hirzebruch surfaces. We construct a family of Kähler-Einstein edge metrics singular along two disjoint divisors on the Calabi–Hirzebruch manifolds and study their Gromov–Hausdorff limits when either cone angle tends to its extreme value. As a very special case, we show that the celebrated Eguchi–Hanson metric arises in this way naturally as a Gromov–Hausdorff limit. We also completely describe all other (possibly rescaled) Gromov–Hausdorff limits which exhibit a wide range of behaviors, resolving in this setting a conjecture of Cheltsov–Rubinstein. This gives a new interpretation of both the Eguchi–Hanson space and Calabi’s Ricci flat spaces as limits of compact singular Einstein spaces.

Higher dimensional generalizations of the chiral field equations

AbstractWe consider the self‐dual Yang–Mills equation and its reduction, the Manakov–Zakharov system. We discuss three‐ and four‐dimensional generalizations of the chiral field equations, and explain methods for constructing their exact solutions.

Binary system modes of matrix-coupled multidimensional oscillators

The standard Kuramoto model has been instrumental in explaining synchronization and desynchronization, two emergent phenomena often observed in biological, neuronal, and physical systems. While the Kuramoto model has turned out effective with one-dimensional oscillators, real-world systems often involve high-dimensional interacting units, such as biological swarms, necessitating a model of multidimensional oscillators. However, existing high-dimensional generalizations of the Kuramoto model commonly rely on a scalar-valued coupling strength, which limits their ability to capture the full complexity of high-dimensional interactions. This work introduces a matrix, A, to couple the interconnected components of the oscillators in a d-dimensional space, leading to a matrix-coupled multidimensional Kuramoto model that approximates a prototypical swarm dynamics by its first-order Fourier harmonics. Moreover, the matrix A introduces an inter-dimensional higher-order interaction that partly accounts for the emergence of 2 d system modes in a d-dimensional population, where each dimension can either be synchronized or desynchronized, represented by a set of almost binary order parameters. The binary system modes capture characteristic swarm behaviors such as fish milling or polarized schooling. Additionally, our findings provides a theoretical analogy to cerebral activity, where the resting state and the activated state coexist unihemispherically. It also suggests a new possibility for information storage in oscillatory neural networks.

Boundary Value Problems for the Perturbed Dirac Equation

The perturbed Dirac operators yield a factorization for the well-known Helmholtz equation. In this paper, using the fundamental solution for the perturbed Dirac operator, we define Cauchy-type integral operators (singular integral operators with a Cauchy kernel). With the help of these operators, we investigate generalized Riemann and Dirichlet problems for the perturbed Dirac equation which is a higher-dimensional generalization of a Vekua-type equation. Furthermore, applying the generalized Cauchy-type integral operator F˜λ, we construct the Mann iterative sequence and prove that the iterative sequence strongly converges to the fixed point of operator F˜λ.

Central limit theorem for euclidean minimal spanning acycles

In this paper, we investigate asymptotics for the minimal spanning acycles (MSAs) of the (Alpha)-Delaunay complex on a stationary Poisson process on [Formula: see text]. MSAs are topological (or higher-dimensional) generalizations of minimal spanning trees. We establish a central limit theorem (CLT) for total weight of the MSA on a Poisson Alpha-Delaunay complex. Our approach also allows us to establish CLTs for the sum of birth times and lifetimes in the persistent diagram of the Delaunay complex. The key to our proof is in showing the so-called weak stabilization of MSAs which proceeds by establishing suitable chain maps and uses matroidal properties of MSAs. In contrast to the proof of weak-stabilization for Euclidean minimal spanning trees via percolation-theoretic estimates, our weak-stabilization proof is algebraic in nature and provides an alternative proof even in the case of minimal spanning trees.

Subtomographic imaging of a polarisation sensitive phase pattern localised in phase space

A transparent polarisation-sensitive phase pattern changes the phase of transmitted light without absorption, whereas this change of phase depends on the polarisation of incident light. A position-localised polarisation-dependent phase pattern is imprinted onto the phase-space of atoms by using atomic state dependent velocity-selective hole burning. A phase-space localised pattern is a higher dimensional generalisation of patterns localised in the position-space. Such a pattern cannot be imaged with a lens. The imprinted pattern is localised in a unique three-dimensional subspace of the six-dimensional phase-space of atoms. The phase-space localised pattern transforms the polarisation of light transmitting through it. This pattern is tomographically imaged at room temperature by measuring the intensity of the transmitted imaging laser beam of variable frequency with a camera after its polarisation analysis. Two sub-tomographs of the imprinted phase-space localised pattern are constructed. This paper presents a concept and experiment of imprinting and imaging of a polarisation-sensitive phase pattern localised in the phase-space.

Broadband directional invisibility

The discovery of unidirectional invisibility and its broadband realization in optical media satisfying spatial Kramers–Kronig relations are important landmarks of non-Hermitian photonics. We offer a precise characterization of a higher-dimensional generalization of this effect and find sufficient conditions for its realization in the scattering of scalar waves in two and three dimensions and electromagnetic waves in three dimensions. More specifically, given a positive real number α and a continuum of unit vectors Ω, we provide explicit conditions on the interaction potential (or the permittivity and permeability tensors of the scattering medium in the case of electromagnetic scattering) under which it displays perfect (non-approximate) invisibility whenever the incident wavenumber k does not exceed α (i.e., k∈(0,α]) and the direction of the incident wave vector ranges over Ω. A distinctive feature of our approach is that it allows for the construction of potentials and linear dielectric media that display perfect directional invisibility in a finite frequency domain.

Webs, Nijenhuis operators, and heavenly PDEs

In 1989 Mason and Newman (Commun. Math. Phys. 121 659–68) proved that there is a 1-1-correspondence between self-dual metrics satisfying Einstein vacuum equation (in complex case or in neutral signature) and pairs of commuting parameter depending vector fields which are divergence free with respect to some volume form. Earlier Plebański (1975 J. Math. Phys. 16 2395–402) showed instances of such vector fields depending of one function of four variables satisfying the so-called I or II Plebański heavenly PDEs. Other PDEs leading to Mason–Newman vector fields are also known in the literature: Park (1992 Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 7 1415), Husain (1994 Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 800), Grant (1993 Phys. Rev. D 48 2606–12), Schief (Phys. Lett. A 223 55–62). In this paper we discuss these matters in the context of the web theory, i.e. theory of collections of foliations on a manifold, understood from the point of view of Nijenhuis operators. In particular we show how to apply this theory for constructing new ‘heavenly’ PDEs based on different normal forms of Nijenhuis operators in 4D, which are integrable similarly to their predecessors. Relation with the Hirota dispersionless systems of PDEs and the corresponding Veronese webs, which was recently observed by Konopelchenko–Schief–Szereszewski, is established in all the cases. We also discuss some higher dimensional generalizations of the ‘heavenly’ PDEs and the existence of related vacuum Einstein metrics in 4D-case.

Chiral anomaly in a (1+1)-dimensional Floquet system under high-frequency electric fields

We investigate the chiral anomaly in a Floquet system under a time-periodic electric field in (1+1) dimensions. Using the van Vleck high-frequency expansion, we analytically calculate the chiral current and the pseudo-scalar condensate for massless/massive fermions and how they are balanced with the topological charge. In the high-frequency limit, we find that finite-mass effects are suppressed and the topological charge is dominated by the chirality production. Our calculations show that the information about the chiral anomaly is stored not in the static Floquet Hamiltonian but in the periodic kick operator. The computational steps are useful as the theoretical foundation for higher-dimensional generalization.

Experimental Guesswork with Quantum Side Information Using Twisted Light.

Guesswork is an information-theoretic quantity which can be seen as an alternate security criterion to entropy. Recent work has established the theoretical framework for guesswork in the presence of quantum side information, which we extend both theoretically and experimentally. We consider guesswork when the side information consists of the BB84 states and their higher-dimensional generalizations. With this side information, we compute the guesswork for two different scenarios for each dimension. We then performed a proof-of-principle experiment using Laguerre-Gauss modes to experimentally compute the guesswork for higher-dimensional generalizations of the BB84 states. We find that our experimental results agree closely with our theoretical predictions. This work shows that guesswork can be a viable security criterion in cryptographic tasks and is experimentally accessible in a number of optical setups.

Edge Behavior of Higher Complex-Dimensional Determinantal Point Processes

As recently proved in generality by Hedenmalm and Wennman, it is a universal behavior of complex random normal matrix models that one finds a complementary error function behavior at the boundary (also called edge) of the droplet as the matrix size increases. Such behavior is seen both in the density of the eigenvalues and the correlation kernel, where the Faddeeva plasma kernel emerges. These results are neatly expressed with the help of the outward unit normal vector on the edge. We prove that such universal behaviors transcend this class of random normal matrices, being also valid in a specific “elliptic” class of determinantal point processes defined on mathbb C^d, which are higher dimensional generalizations of the determinantal point processes describing the eigenvalues of the complex Ginibre ensemble and the complex elliptic Ginibre ensemble. These models describe a system of particles in mathbb C^d with mutual repulsion, that are confined to the origin by an external field {mathscr {V}}(z) = |z|^2 - tau {text {Re}}(z_1^2+ldots +z_d^2), where 0le tau <1. Their average density of particles converges to a uniform law on a 2d-dimensional ellipsoidal region. It is on the hyperellipsoid bounding this region that we find a complementary error function behavior and the Faddeeva plasma kernel. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first instance of the Faddeeva plasma kernel emerging in a higher dimensional model. The results provide evidence for a possible edge universality theorem for determinantal point processes on mathbb C^d.

Bounded perturbations of the Heisenberg commutation relation via dilation theory

We extend the notion of dilation distance to strongly continuous one-parameter unitary groups. If the dilation distance between two such groups is finite, then these groups can be represented on the same space in such a way that their generators have the same domain and are in fact a bounded perturbation of one another. This result extends to d d -tuples of one-parameter unitary groups. We apply our results to the Weyl canonical commutation relations, and as a special case we recover the result of Haagerup and Rørdam [Duke Math. J. 77 (1995), pp. 627–656 ] that the infinite ampliation of the canonical position and momentum operators satisfying the Heisenberg commutation relation are a bounded perturbation of a pair of strongly commuting selfadjoint operators. We also recover Gao’s higher-dimensional generalization of Haagerup and Rørdam’s result, and in typical cases we significantly improve control of the bound when the dimension grows.

Higher dimensional generalizations of the Thompson groups via higher rank graphs

We construct a family of groups from suitable higher rank graphs which are higher dimensional generalizations of the Thompson groups. We introduce group invariants, inspired by the K-theory of C⁎-algebras, and show that many of our groups are not isomorphic to the Brin-Thompson groups nV, when n≥2.

Calabi–Yau threefolds with non‐Gorenstein involutions

AbstractThe concept of non‐Gorenstein involutions on Calabi–Yau threefolds is a higher dimensional generalization of non‐symplectic involutions on K3 surfaces. We present some elementary facts about Calabi–Yau threefolds with non‐Gorenstein involutions. We give a classification of the Calabi–Yau threefolds of Picard rank one with non‐Gorenstein involutions, whose fixed locus is not zero‐dimensional.

Timelike entanglement entropy

We define a new complex-valued measure of information called the timelike entanglement entropy (EE) which in the boundary theory can be viewed as a Wick rotation that changes a spacelike boundary subregion to a timelike one. An explicit definition of the timelike EE in 2d field theories is provided followed by numerical computations which agree with the analytic continuation of the replica method for CFTs. We argue that timelike EE should be correctly interpreted as another measure previously considered, the pseudo entropy, which is the von Neumann entropy of a reduced transition matrix. Our results strongly imply that the imaginary part of the pseudo entropy describes an emergent time which generalizes the notion of an emergent space from quantum entanglement. For holographic systems we define the timelike EE as the total complex valued area of a particular stationary combination of both space and timelike extremal surfaces which are homologous to the boundary region. For the examples considered we find explicit matching of our optimization procedure and the careful implementation of the Wick rotation in the boundary CFT. We also make progress on higher dimensional generalizations and relations to holographic pseudo entropy in de Sitter space.

Relative cluster categories and Higgs categories

Cluster categories were introduced in 2006 by Buan-Marsh-Reineke-Reiten-Todorov in order to categorify acyclic cluster algebras without coefficients. Their construction was generalized by Amiot (2009) [3] and Plamondon (2011) [50] to arbitrary cluster algebras associated with quivers. A higher dimensional generalization is due to Guo (2011) [17]. Cluster algebras with coefficients are important since they appear in nature as coordinate algebras of varieties like Grassmannians, double Bruhat cells, unipotent cells, etc. The work of Geiss-Leclerc-Schröer often yields Frobenius exact categories which allow us to categorify such cluster algebras.In this paper, we generalize the construction of (higher) cluster categories by Claire Amiot and by Lingyan Guo to the relative context. We prove the existence of an n-cluster tilting object in a Frobenius extriangulated category, namely the Higgs category (generalizing the Frobenius categories of Geiss-Leclerc-Schröer), which is stably n-Calabi–Yau and Hom-finite, arising from a left (n+1)-Calabi–Yau morphism. Our results apply in particular to relative Ginzburg dg algebras coming from ice quivers with potential and higher Auslander algebras associated to n-representation-finite algebras.

Quantum Holonomy Fields

We investigate lattice and continuous quantum gauge theories on the Euclidean plane with a structure group that is replaced by a H-algebra. H-algebras are non-commutative analogues of groups and contain the class of Voiculescu's dual groups. We are interested in non-commutative analogues of random gauge fields, which we describe through the random Holonomy that they induce. We propose a general definition of a Holonomy Field with symmetries displaying the structure of a H-algebra and construct such a field starting from a quantum Lévy process on a H-algebra in the category of probability spaces. We call them Quantum Holonomy Fields. We also consider the more abstract case of an H-algebra in a given algebraic category. This yields the notion of a Categorical Holonomy Field. As an application, we define higher dimensional generalizations of the so-called Master Field on the plane.

Killing-Yano charges of asymptotically maximally symmetric black holes

We construct an asymptotic conserved charge for a current that has been defined using Killing-Yano tensors. We then calculate the corresponding conserved charges of the Kerr and AdS-Kerr black holes, and their higher-dimensional generalizations, Myers-Perry and Gibbons-Lü-Page-Pope black holes. The new charges all turn out to be proportional to the angular momenta of their parent black holes.