Kavli Affiliate: Mikhail Kapranov | First 5 Authors: Mikhail Kapranov, Vadim Schechtman, , , | Summary: For a complex reductive Lie group G with Lie algebra g, Cartan subalgebra h and Weyl group W, we describe the category of perverse sheaves on h/W smooth w.r.t the natural stratification. The answer is given in terms of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yevgeny V. Stadnik | First 5 Authors: Yevgeny V. Stadnik, , , , | Summary: We point out that in models of macroscopic topological defects composed of one or more scalar fields that interact with standard-model fields via scalar-type couplings, the back-action of ambient matter on the scalar field(s) produces an environmental dependence […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hiraku Nakajima | First 5 Authors: Sergei Gukov, Po-Shen Hsin, Hiraku Nakajima, Sunghyuk Park, Du Pei | Summary: By studying Rozansky-Witten theory with non-compact target spaces we find new connections with knot invariants whose physical interpretation was not known. This opens up several new avenues, which include a new formulation of $q$-series invariants […]
Kavli Affiliate: Simeon Hellerman | First 5 Authors: Simeon Hellerman, Shunsuke Maeda, Domenico Orlando, Susanne Reffert, Masataka Watanabe | Summary: We study the ratio of pairs of adjacent correlators of Coulomb-branch operators in $SU(2)$ $mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD with four flavors within the framework of the Large Quantum Number Expansion. Capitalizing on the order-by-order S-duality invariance of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Taizan Watari | First 5 Authors: Yuichi Enoki, Yotaro Sato, Taizan Watari, , | Summary: We showed that there is no SU(2) Witten anomaly in a large class of 4d N = 2 supersymmetric Heterotic string compactifications. The consistency conditions we consider are the modularity of the new supersymmetric index, the integrality of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Taizan Watari | First 5 Authors: Yuichi Enoki, Yotaro Sato, Taizan Watari, , | Summary: We showed that there is no SU(2) Witten anomaly in a large class of 4d N = 2 supersymmetric Heterotic string compactifications. The consistency conditions we consider are the modularity of the new supersymmetric index, the integrality of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hirosi Ooguri | First 5 Authors: Stefano Andriolo, Tzu-Chen Huang, Toshifumi Noumi, Hirosi Ooguri, Gary Shiu | Summary: The axionic weak gravity conjecture predicts the existence of instantons whose actions are less than their charges in appropriate units. We show that the conjecture is satisfied for the axion-dilaton-gravity system if we assume duality […]
Kavli Affiliate: Naoki Yasuda | First 5 Authors: Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Masahiro Takada, Naoki Yasuda, Željko Ivezić | Summary: We present proper motion measurements for more than $0.55$ million main-sequence stars, by comparing astrometric positions of matched stars between the multi-band imaging datasets from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Survey and the SDSS Stripe 82. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tomotake Matsumura | First 5 Authors: Tommaso Ghigna, Tomotake Matsumura, Guillaume Patanchon, Hirokazu Ishino, Masashi Hazumi | Summary: Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation experiments are targeting the polarized $B$-mode signal. The small amplitude of this signal makes a successful measurement challenging for current technologies. Therefore, very accurate studies to mitigate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alexey Bondal | First 5 Authors: Agnieszka Bodzenta, Alexey Bondal, , , | Summary: We define the functor $textrm{ncDef}_{(Z_1,ldots,Z_n)}$ of non-commutative deformations of an $n$-tuple of objects in an arbitrary $k$-linear abelian category $mathcal{Z}$. In our categorified approach, we view the underlying spaces of infinitesimal flat deformations as Deligne finite categories, i.e. finite […]