ReNewQuantum

ERC SYNERGY GRANT

UPCOMING ReNewQuantum SEMINAR

I will talk about the Topological String/Spectral theory duality on toric Calabi-Yau threefolds obtained from the resolution of the cone over the $Y^{N,0}$ singularity. Assuming Kyiv formula, we demonstrate this duality in a special regime thanks to an underlying connection between spectral determinants of quantum mirror curves and the non-autonomous (q)-Toda system. In this talk, I will show how to exploit the correspondence to connect small and large time expansions in Toda equations. In particular we provide an explicit expression for their tau functions at large time in terms of a strong coupling version of the Nekrasov partition function. These are related to a special class of multi-cut matrix models which describe the strong coupling regime of four dimensional, $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(N)$ super Yang-Mills.

One of the most classical settings for Exact Perturbation Theory is the exact WKB method for solving singularly perturbed linear ODEs such as the Schrödinger equation. Such ODEs can be easily solved in exponential power series: this is the famous WKB ansatz. The resulting formal WKB solutions, however, are always divergent and therefore have no direct analytic meaning. Attempting to apply the Borel resummation to get true analytic solutions turns out to be the correct approach, but a difficult mathematical problem, especially for equations of higher-order. I will describe a solution to this problem that I have developed through a series of recent works. Another outcome of this solution is that the constructions involved in the proof can be made completely geometrically invariant. So I will also describe an algebro-geometric formulation of the WKB method for meromorphic connections in terms of invariant splittings of bundle extensions.

The talk is an overview of resurgence results in generic linear or nonlinear meromorphic ODEs and classes of PDEs with emphasis on the time-periodic Schrödinger equation and its non-perturbative analysis. I will also explain the method of trans-asymptotic matching. Then I will present a number of applications ranging from the proof of the Dubrovin conjecture, the calculation of connection constants in closed form for integrable models, and talk about two recent results, on the optimal reconstruction of functions from truncated Maclaurin series and the solution of a 60 year old problem concerning the domain of convergence of spherical harmonic expansions

Quantum invariants of three manifolds satisfy q-difference equations. Solving these difference equations leads to matrices defined modulo elliptic functions. In practice, this normalisation can be is fixed to be defined up to some Jacobi forms. I will describe how these matrices arise in the factorisation of state integrals and how they can be used to conjecturally give both the Borel resummation of certain asymptotic series and their associated Stokes constants. This will be illustrated in some examples associated to closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

What is the best way to extract information from a finite amount of perturbative information? This is a common problem in applications. We may only be able to compute a (small) finite number of coefficients of an expansion of a function about some special parameter point, and we wish to learn about the behaviour near another point (possibly very distant). I will discuss some recent work with Ovidiu Costin using resurgence ideas to address the mathematical question of optimal and near-optimal methods of analytic continuation, and I will illustrate with several applications in quantum field theory.

The talk is an overview of resurgence results in generic linear or nonlinear meromorphic ODEs and classes of PDEs with emphasis on the time-periodic Schrödinger equation and its non-perturbative analysis. I will also explain the method of trans-asymptotic matching. Then I will present a number of applications ranging from the proof of the Dubrovin conjecture, the calculation of connection constants in closed form for integrable models, and talk about two recent results, on the optimal reconstruction of functions from truncated Maclaurin series and the solution of a 60 year old problem concerning the domain of convergence of spherical harmonic expansions

Virasoro/W-constraint has been playing a central role in the context of enumerative geometry, which provides algebraic characterization of the partition function (generating function; tau function) and the correlation functions. Instanton counting is one of such enumerative problems originally motivated by 4d supersymmetric gauge theory, which shares a lot of concepts with other enumerative problems, e.g., spectral curve and its quantization, WKB expansion, integrability, etc. In this talk, I will show that a discrete analog of the Virasoro/W-constraint, which is in fact the q-deformation of the ordinary Virasoro/W-constraint, would emerge in the context of instanton counting through double quantization of the gauge theory moduli space. I would in particular discuss a possible interplay between geometric representation theory and enumerative geometry.

There is a connection between N=2 supersymmetric field theory in four dimensions and the theory of linear differential and difference equations with meromorphic coefficients. This connection has been studied by many different authors from different perspectives. One way of understanding it is as an instance of the general phenomenon that turning on Omega-background naturally quantizes algebraic structures in the operator algebras of supersymmetric QFT. I will recall this connection and describe some of its uses, along with some recent and ongoing extensions of the story.

Some recent work in the quantum gravity literature has considered what happens when the amplitudes of a TQFT are summed over the bordisms between fixed in-going and out-going boundaries. We will comment on these constructions. The total amplitude, that takes into account all in-going and out-going boundaries can be presented in a curious factorized form.

I will discuss a curious relation satisfied by many superconformal indices and index-like quantities. The relation takes the form of a large-N, large charge asymptotic expansion, but is actually exact.

Conventional Floer theory studies real symplectic manifolds by means of algebraic and categorical structures associated with their Lagrangian submanifolds. The Floer complex of a pair of Lagrangian submanifolds is an example. Its upgrade to the Fukaya category of a symplectic manifold is another example. In 2014 jointly with Maxim Kontsevich we started the project "Holomorphic Floer theory" (HFT) in which complex symplectic manifolds were the main object of study. This brings methods of symplectic topology into the realm of complex geometry without passing to the mirror dual manifold. In this talk I plan to give an introduction to the project based mainly on our version of the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence. The latter relates deformation quantization and the Fukaya category of the same complex symplectic manifold. In particular it gives a tool for study some of the questions of "brane quantization" story in physics like e.g. the meaning of coisotropic branes, or how to associate a module over quantum algebra to a complex Lagrangian submanifold (maybe singular). Another story in which HFT point of view is useful is the one of exponential integrals. HFT explains the geometric meaning of the Stokes phenomenon, wall-crossing formulas and resurgence in the framework of exponential integrals (maybe infinite-dimensional).

.