Matroid theory and Chern-Simons

DOI10.1063/1.1319518MaRDI QIDQ2731812zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. A. Nieto, M. C. Marín

Publication date 30 July 2001

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0005117

zbMATH Keywords

alternating knots and linksduality symmetriesM-theorysupergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: It is shown that matroid theory may provide a natural mathematical framework for a duality symmetries not only for quantum Yang-Mills physics, but also for M-theory. Our discussion is focused in an action consisting purely of the Chern-Simons term, but in principle the main ideas can be applied beyond such an action. In our treatment the theorem due to Thistlethwaite, which gives a relationship between the Tutte polynomial for graphs and Jones polynomial for alternating knots and links, plays a central role. Before addressing this question we briefly mention some important aspects of matroid theory and we point out a connection between the Fano matroid and D=11 supergravity. Our approach also seems to be related to loop solutions of quantum gravity based in Ashtekar formalism.

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