Algebraic topology foundations of supersymmetry and symmetry breaking in quantum field theory and quantum gravity: a review

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.051MaRDI QIDQ1016673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ion C. Baianu, James F. Glazebrook, Ronald Brown

Publication date 21 May 2009

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3644, https://eudml.org/doc/55337

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic topology of quantum systemsapplications of generalized Van kampen theorem (GvKT) to quantum spacetime invariantscompact quantum groupoidsconvolution algebras and quantum algebroidsextended quantum symmetriesfluctuating quantum spacetimesGrassmann-Hopfgroupoid and functor representations in relation to extended quantum symmetries in QATgroupoids and algebroidsHamiltonian algebroids in quantum gravityhigher dimensional quantum symmetriesintense gravitational fieldsLie algebrasLie algebroidsnuclear Fréchet spaces and GNS representations of quantum state spaces (QSS)paracrystalsparagroups and Kac algebrasPoisson-Lie manifolds and quantum gravity theoriesquantization proceduresquantum algebraic topology (QAT)quantum algebras: von Neumann algebra factorsquantum double groupoids and algebroidsquantum fundamental groupoidsquantum groupoid \(C^{*}\)-algebrasquantum groups and ring structuresrelativistic quantum gravity (RQG)SPIN networks and SPIN glassessuperfluidssupergravity and supersymmetry theoriessymmetry breakingtensor products of algebroids and categoriesweak \(C^{*}\)-Hopf algebroidsweak \(C^{*}\)-Hopf and graded Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Measures on groups and semigroups, etc. (43A05) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

Abstract: A novel algebraic topology approach to supersymmetry (SUSY) and symmetry breaking in quantum field and quantum gravity theories is presented with a view to developing a wide range of physical applications. These include: controlled nuclear fusion and other nuclear reaction studies in quantum chromodynamics, nonlinear physics at high energy densities, dynamic Jahn-Teller effects, superfluidity, high temperature superconductors, multiple scattering by molecular systems, molecular or atomic paracrystal structures, nanomaterials, ferromagnetism in glassy materials, spin glasses, quantum phase transitions and supergravity. This approach requires a unified conceptual framework that utilizes extended symmetries and quantum groupoid, algebroid and functorial representations of non-Abelian higher dimensional structures pertinent to quantized spacetime topology and state space geometry of quantum operator algebras. Fourier transforms, generalized Fourier-Stieltjes transforms, and duality relations link, respectively, the quantum groups and quantum groupoids with their dual algebraic structures; quantum double constructions are also discussed in this context in relation to quasi-triangular, quasi-Hopf algebras, bialgebroids, Grassmann-Hopf algebras and higher dimensional algebra. On the one hand, this quantum algebraic approach is known to provide solutions to the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. On the other hand, our novel approach to extended quantum symmetries and their associated representations is shown to be relevant to locally covariant general relativity theories that are consistent with either nonlocal quantum field theories or local bosonic (spin) models with the extended quantum symmetry of entangled, 'string-net condensed' (ground) states.

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