Overview
- Presents “molecular self-assembly” using triangulations of two- and three-dimensional manifolds to discuss the subtle geometrical features
- Suitable for specialists as well as graduate students working in the field of quantum geometry and its applications
- Includes a new chapter on the geometry of dilatonic non-linear sigma model and its subtle and many-faceted connection with Ricci flow theory
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 942)
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This book discusses key conceptual aspects and explores the connection between triangulated manifolds and quantum physics, using a set of case studies ranging from moduli space theory to quantum computing to provide an accessible introduction to this topic.
Research on polyhedral manifolds often reveals unexpected connections between very distinct aspects of mathematics and physics. In particular, triangulated manifolds play an important role in settings such as Riemann moduli space theory, strings and quantum gravity, topological quantum field theory, condensed matter physics, critical phenomena and complex systems. Not only do they provide a natural discrete analogue to the smooth manifolds on which physical theories are typically formulated, but their appearance is also often a consequence of an underlying structure that naturally calls into play non-trivial aspects of representation theory, complex analysis and topology in a way that makes the basic geometric structures ofthe physical interactions involved clear.
This second edition further emphasizes the essential role that triangulations play in modern mathematical physics, with a new and highly detailed chapter on the geometry of the dilatonic non-linear sigma model and its subtle and many-faceted connection with Ricci flow theory. This connection is treated in depth, pinpointing both the mathematical and physical aspects of the perturbative embedding of the Ricci flow in the renormalization group flow of non-linear sigma models. The geometry of the dilaton field is discussed from a novel standpoint by using polyhedral manifolds and Riemannian metric measure spaces, emphasizing their role in connecting non-linear sigma models’ effective action to Perelman’s energy-functional. No other published account of this matter is so detailed and informative.
This new edition also features an expanded appendix on Riemannian geometry, and a rich set of new illustrations to help the reader grasp the more difficult points of the theory. The book offers a valuable guide for all mathematicians and theoretical physicists working in the field of quantum geometry and its applications.Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Dynamical triangulations
- Polyhedral surfaces and complex geometry
- Moduli space
- Geometry of polyhedral manifolds
- Quantum Liouville Theory
- Weil–Petersson
- Quantum gravity and non-critical string theory
- Topological quantum Field Theory
- Higher dimensional manifolds
- Mathematical methods for quantum computing
- Wess–Zumino–Witten theory
Table of contents (7 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
His research interests include Geometrical Analysis, and Combinatorial methods in theoretical and mathematical Physics. Applications in quantum gravity and moduli space theory. Ricci flow on Riemannian manifolds. Applications of geometric flows to theoretical and mathematical Phyics. Renormalization group flow and geometrical flows. Relativistic cosmology.
Annalisa Marzuoli received her Laurea in Physics in 1979. She held a research fellowship of the National Research Council inMathematical Physics from 1979-1984. Then she was a researcher in Theoretical Physics, until she became an associate professor in 2000, all at the University of Pavia.
Her current fields of research include geometric and algebraic aspects of condensed matter systems (graphene and topological insulators) and of Topological Quantum Field Theories, with applications to quantum computing. Quantum integrable systems, their semiclassical analysis and relations with the Askey-Wilson scheme of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, with applications to atomic and molecular physics and to discretized gravity models. Improvement of interconnected algebraic, geometric and combinatorial methods to model many-body (quantum and lattice) systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Triangulations
Book Subtitle: Moduli Space, Quantum Computing, Non-Linear Sigma Models and Ricci Flow
Authors: Mauro Carfora, Annalisa Marzuoli
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67937-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67936-5Published: 28 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67937-2Published: 27 November 2017
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 392
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Physics, Mathematical Physics, Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology), Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation