Four-dimensional topological interpretation of the U(1) anomaly

1997 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 2394-2397
Author(s):  
A. I. Karanikas ◽  
C. N. Ktorides
Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Richard Pincak ◽  
Alexander Pigazzini ◽  
Saeid Jafari ◽  
Cenap Ozel

The main purpose of this paper is to show and introduce some new interpretative aspects of the concept of “emergent space” as geometric/topological approach in the cosmological field. We will present some possible applications of this theory, among which the possibility of considering a non-orientable wormhole, but mainly we provide a topological interpretation, using this new approach, to M-Theory and String Theory in 10 dimensions. Further, we present some conclusions which this new interpretation suggests, and also some remarks considering a unifying approach between strings and dark matter. The approach shown in the paper considers that reality, as it appears to us, can be the “emerging” part of a more complex hidden structure. Pacs numbers: 11.25.Yb; 11.25.-w; 02.40.Ky; 02.40.-k; 04.50.-h; 95.35.+d.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (06) ◽  
pp. 825-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. JUYUMAYA ◽  
S. LAMBROPOULOU

In this paper we introduce a Jones-type invariant for singular knots, using a Markov trace on the Yokonuma–Hecke algebras Y d,n(u) and the theory of singular braids. The Yokonuma–Hecke algebras have a natural topological interpretation in the context of framed knots. Yet, we show that there is a homomorphism of the singular braid monoid SBn into the algebra Y d,n(u). Surprisingly, the trace does not normalize directly to yield a singular link invariant, so a condition must be imposed on the trace variables. Assuming this condition, the invariant satisfies a skein relation involving singular crossings, which arises from a quadratic relation in the algebra Y d,n(u).


Synthese ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dougherty

Abstract Elay Shech and John Earman have recently argued that the common topological interpretation of the Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect is unsatisfactory because it fails to justify idealizations that it presupposes. In particular, they argue that an adequate account of the AB effect must address the role of boundary conditions in certain ideal cases of the effect. In this paper I defend the topological interpretation against their criticisms. I consider three types of idealization that might arise in treatments of the effect. First, Shech takes the AB effect to involve an idealization in the form of a singular limit, analogous to the thermodynamic limit in statistical mechanics. But, I argue, the AB effect itself features no singular limits, so it doesn’t involve idealizations in this sense. Second, I argue that Shech and Earman’s emphasis on the role of boundary conditions in the AB effect is misplaced. The idealizations that are useful in connecting the theoretical description of the AB effect to experiment do interact with facts about boundary conditions, but none of these idealizations are presupposed by the topological interpretation of the effect. Indeed, the boundary conditions for which Shech and demands justification are incompatible with some instances of the AB effect, so the topological interpretation ought not justify them. Finally, I address the role of the non-relativistic approximation usually presumed in discussions of the AB effect. This approximation is essential if—as the topological interpretation supposes—the AB effect constrains and justifies a relativistic theory of the electromagnetic interaction. In this case the ends justify the means. So the topological view presupposes no unjustified idealizations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Celani

AbstractIn this note we shall give some results on annihilators preserving congruence relations, or AP-congruences, in bounded distributive lattices. We shall give some new characterizations, and a topological interpretation of the notion of annihilator preserving congruences introduced in [JANOWITZ, M. F.: Annihilator preserving congruence relations of lattices, Algebra Universalis 5 (1975), 391–394]. As an application of these results, we shall prove that the quotient of a quasicomplemented lattice by means of a AP-congruence is a quasicomplemented lattice. Similarly, we will prove that the quotient of a normal latttice by means of a AP-congruence is also a normal lattice.


2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-393

Steve Awodey and Kohei Kishida (2008). Topology and Modality: The Topological Interpretation of First-Order Modal Logic. The Review of Symbolic Logic 1(2): 146-166.On page 148 of this article an error was introduced during the production process. The final equation in the displayed formula 8 lines from the bottom of the page should read,[0, 1) ≠ [0, 1]The publisher regrets this error.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier CEPAS ◽  
Peter M. Akhmetiev

We explain a correspondence between some invariants in the dynamics of color exchange in the coloring problem of a 2d regular hexagonal lattice, which are polynomials of winding numbers, and linking numbers in 3d. One invariant is visualized as linking of lines on a special surface with Arf-Kervaire invariant one, and is interpreted as resulting from an obstruction to transform the surface into its chiral image with special continuous deformations. We also consider additional constraints on the dynamics and see how the surface is modified.


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