Annales Henri Poincaré 

About: Annales Henri Poincaré is an academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Quantum & Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics). It has an ISSN identifier of 1424-0637. Over the lifetime, 1664 publications have been published receiving 33426 citations. The journal is also known as: A Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics & Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, physique théorique.

The complete 1/n expansion of colored tensor models in arbitrary dimension

Abstract: In this paper we generalize the results of Gurau (arXiv:1011. 2726 [gr-qc], 2011), Gurau and Rivasseau (arXiv:1101.4182 [gr-qc], 2011) and derive the full 1/N expansion of colored tensor models in arbitrary dimensions. We detail the expansion for the independent identically distributed model and the topological Boulatov Ooguri model.

The 1/N Expansion of Colored Tensor Models

Abstract: In this paper, we perform the 1/N expansion of the colored three-dimensional Boulatov tensor model. As in matrix models, we obtain a systematic topological expansion, with increasingly complicated topologies suppressed by higher and higher powers of N. We compute the first orders of the expansion and prove that only graphs corresponding to three spheres S 3 contribute to the leading order in the large N limit.

Nonequilibrium Markov Processes Conditioned on Large Deviations

Abstract: We consider the problem of conditioning a Markov process on a rare event and of representing this conditioned process by a conditioning-free process, called the effective or driven process. The basic assumption is that the rare event used in the conditioning is a large deviation-type event, characterized by a convex rate function. Under this assumption, we construct the driven process via a generalization of Doob’s h-transform, used in the context of bridge processes, and show that this process is equivalent to the conditioned process in the long-time limit. The notion of equivalence that we consider is based on the logarithmic equivalence of path measures and implies that the two processes have the same typical states. In constructing the driven process, we also prove equivalence with the so-called exponential tilting of the Markov process, often used with importance sampling to simulate rare events and giving rise, from the point of view of statistical mechanics, to a nonequilibrium version of the canonical ensemble. Other links between our results and the topics of bridge processes, quasi-stationary distributions, stochastic control, and conditional limit theorems are mentioned.

Torus knots and mirror symmetry

Abstract: We propose a spectral curve describing torus knots and links in the B-model. In particular, the application of the topological recursion to this curve generates all their colored HOMFLY invariants. The curve is obtained by exploiting the full Sl(2;Z) symmetry of the spectral curve of the resolved conifold, and should be regarded as the mirror of the topological D-brane associated to torus knots in the large N Gopakumar{Vafa duality. Moreover, we derive the curve as the large N limit of the matrix model computing torus knot invariants.

Topological Strings from Quantum Mechanics

Abstract: We propose a general correspondence which associates a non-perturbative quantum-mechanical operator to a toric Calabi–Yau manifold, and we conjecture an explicit formula for its spectral determinant in terms of an M-theoretic version of the topological string free energy. As a consequence, we derive an exact quantization condition for the operator spectrum, in terms of the vanishing of a generalized theta function. The perturbative part of this quantization condition is given by the Nekrasov–Shatashvili limit of the refined topological string, but there are non-perturbative corrections determined by the conventional topological string. We analyze in detail the cases of local $${{\mathbb{P}}^2}$$ , local $${{\mathbb{P}}^1 \times {\mathbb{P}}^1}$$ and local $${{\mathbb{F}}_1}$$ . In all these cases, the predictions for the spectrum agree with the existing numerical results. We also show explicitly that our conjectured spectral determinant leads to the correct spectral traces of the corresponding operators. Physically, our results provide a non-perturbative formulation of topological strings on toric Calabi–Yau manifolds, in which the genus expansion emerges as a ’t Hooft limit of the spectral traces. Since the spectral determinant is an entire function on moduli space, it leads to a background-independent formulation of the theory. Mathematically, our results lead to precise, surprising conjectures relating the spectral theory of functional difference operators to enumerative geometry.