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In the first part of the paper, we propose a different viewpoint on the theory of higher Airy structures (or Airy ideals), which may shed light on its origin. We define Airy ideals in the ħ -adic completion of the Rees Weyl algebra and show that Airy ideals are defined exactly such that they are always related to the canonical left ideal generated by derivatives by automorphisms of the Rees Weyl algebra of a simple type, which we call transvections. The standard existence and uniqueness result in the theory of Airy structures then follow immediately. In the second part of the paper, we construct Airy ideals generated by the nonnegative modes of the strong generators of the principal W -algebra of sp 2 N at level - N - 1 / 2 , following the approach developed in Borot et al. (Mem Am Math Soc, 2021). This provides an example of an Airy ideal in the Heisenberg algebra that requires realizing the zero modes as derivatives instead of variables, which leads to an interesting interpretation for the resulting partition function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to make first steps towards the quantisation of integrable nonlinear sigma models using the formalism of affine Gaudin models, by approaching these theories through their conformal limits. We focus mostly on the example of the Klimčík model, which is a two-parameter deformation of the principal chiral model on a Lie group G. We show that the UV fixed point of this theory is described classically by two decoupled chiral affine Gaudin models, encoding its left- and right-moving degrees of freedom, and give a detailed analysis of the chiral and integrable structures of these models. Their quantisation is then explored within the framework of Feigin and Frenkel. We study the quantum local integrals of motion using the formalism of quantised affine Gaudin models and show agreement of the first two integrals with known results in the literature for G = SU (2) . Evidence is given for the existence of a monodromy matrix satisfying the Yang–Baxter algebra for this model, thus paving the way for the quantisation of the non-local integrals of motion. We conclude with various perspectives, including on generalisations of this programme to a larger class of integrable sigma models and applications of the ODE/IQFT correspondence to the description of their quantum spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the TQFT formalism of Moore–Tachikawa for describing Higgs branches of theories of class S , the space associated to the unpunctured sphere in type g is the universal centraliser Z G , where g = L i e (G) . In more physical terms, this space arises as the Coulomb branch of pure N = 4 gauge theory in three dimensions with gauge group G ˇ , the Langlands dual. In the analogous formalism for describing chiral algebras of class S , the vertex algebra associated to the sphere has been dubbed the chiral universal centraliser. In this paper, we construct an open, symplectic embedding from a cover of the Kostant–Toda lattice of type g to the universal centraliser of G—extending a classic result of Kostant. Using this embedding and some observations on the Poisson algebraic structure of Z G , we propose a free field realisation of the chiral universal centraliser for any simple group G. We exploit this realisation to develop free field realisations of chiral algebras of class S of type a 1 for theories of genus zero with n = 1 , ... , 6 punctures. These realisations make generalised S-duality completely manifest, and the generalisation to n ⩾ 7 punctures is conceptually clear, though technically burdensome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We continue the study of fuzzy geometries inside Connes' spectral formalism and their relation to multimatrix models. In this companion paper to Pérez-Sánchez (Ann Henri Poincaré 22:3095–3148, 2021, arXiv:2007.10914), we propose a gauge theory setting based on noncommutative geometry, which—just as the traditional formulation in terms of almost-commutative manifolds—has the ability to also accommodate a Higgs field. However, in contrast to 'almost-commutative manifolds', the present framework, which we call gauge matrix spectral triples, employs only finite-dimensional algebras. In a path-integral quantization approach to the Spectral Action, this allows to state Yang–Mills–Higgs theory (on four-dimensional Euclidean fuzzy space) as an explicit random multimatrix model obtained here, whose matrix fields exactly mirror those of the Yang–Mills–Higgs theory on a smooth manifold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to establish a new connection between the Hermitian rank-1 projector solutions of the Euclidean C P 2 S sigma model in two dimensions and the particular hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials called Krawtchouk polynomials. We show that any Veronese subsequent analytical solutions of the C P 2 S model, defined on the Riemann sphere and having a finite action, can be explicitly parametrized in terms of these polynomials. We apply these results to the analysis of surfaces associated with C P 2 S models defined using the generalized Weierstrass formula for immersion. We show that these surfaces are homeomorphic to spheres in the su (2 s + 1) algebra and express several other geometrical characteristics in terms of the Krawtchouk polynomials. Finally, a connection between the su (2) spin-s representation and the C P 2 S model is explored in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a contribution to a program to see symmetry breaking in a weakly interacting many-Boson system on a three-dimensional lattice at low temperature. It is part of an analysis of the "small field" approximation to the "parabolic flow" which exhibits the formation of a "Mexican hat" potential well. Here we state the main result of this analysis, outline the strategy of the proof, which uses a renormalization group flow, and perform the first, algebraic, part of a renormalization group step. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this paper is to put on solid mathematical grounds the so-called non-equilibrium Green's function transport formalism for open systems. In particular, we derive the Jauho-Meir-Wingreen formula for the time-dependent current through an interacting sample coupled to non-interacting leads. Our proof is non-perturbative and uses neither complex-time Keldysh contours nor Langreth rules of 'analytic continuation.' We also discuss other technical identities (Langreth, Keldysh) involving various many-body Green's functions. Finally, we study the Dyson equation for the advanced/retarded interacting Green's function and we rigorously construct its (irreducible) self-energy, using the theory of Volterra operators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We construct an inductive system of C*-algebras each of which is isomorphic to a finite tensor product of copies of the one-mode n-th degree polynomial extension of the usual Weyl algebra constructed in our previous paper (Accardi and Dhahri in Open Syst Inf Dyn 22(3):1550001, 2015). We prove that the inductive limit C*-algebra is factorizable and has a natural localization given by a family of C*-sub-algebras each of which is localized on a bounded Borel subset of $${\mathbb{R}}$$ . Finally, we prove that the corresponding family of Fock states, defined on the inductive family of C*-algebras, is projective if and only if n = 1. This is a weak form of the no-go theorems which emerge in the study of representations of current algebras over Lie algebras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study the invariant of knots in lens spaces defined from quantum Chern-Simons theory. By means of the knot operator formalism, we derive a generalization of the Rosso-Jones formula for torus knots in L( p,1). In the second part of the paper, we propose a B-model topological string theory description of torus knots in L(2,1). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]