Homotopy Invariant Algebraic Structures

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-413
Author(s):  
Irène Guessarian

This paper recalls some fixpoint theorems in ordered algebraic structures and surveys some ways in which these theorems are applied in computer science. We describe via examples three main types of applications: in semantics and proof theory, in logic programming and in deductive data bases.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-153
Author(s):  
Severin Bunk ◽  
Konrad Waldorf

AbstractIn the Lagrangian approach to 2-dimensional sigma models, B-fields and D-branes contribute topological terms to the action of worldsheets of both open and closed strings. We show that these terms naturally fit into a 2-dimensional, smooth open-closed functorial field theory (FFT) in the sense of Atiyah, Segal, and Stolz–Teichner. We give a detailed construction of this smooth FFT, based on the definition of a suitable smooth bordism category. In this bordism category, all manifolds are equipped with a smooth map to a spacetime target manifold. Further, the object manifolds are allowed to have boundaries; these are the endpoints of open strings stretched between D-branes. The values of our FFT are obtained from the B-field and its D-branes via transgression. Our construction generalises work of Bunke–Turner–Willerton to include open strings. At the same time, it generalises work of Moore–Segal about open-closed TQFTs to include target spaces. We provide a number of further features of our FFT: we show that it depends functorially on the B-field and the D-branes, we show that it is thin homotopy invariant, and we show that it comes equipped with a positive reflection structure in the sense of Freed–Hopkins. Finally, we describe how our construction is related to the classification of open-closed TQFTs obtained by Lauda–Pfeiffer.


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 853-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
NARUHIKO AIZAWA ◽  
SEBASTIAN SACHSE ◽  
HARU-TADA SATO

We discuss quantum algebraic structures of the systems of electrons or quasiparticles on a sphere on whose center a magnetic monopole is located. We verify that the deformation parameter is related to the filling ratio of the particles in each case.


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