IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

It is believed that topologically ordered gapped local Hamiltonians in 2+1d consisting of commuting terms may not realize a chiral anyon theory. There is even a formula that expresses the chiral central charge of the edge theory as an integral of...

In this talk, I will discuss Cosmohedra. These are geometric objects which encode the vacuum wavefunction for theories with colored scalars with cubic interactions. I will start by introducing the vacuum wavefunction, both in Minkowski and de Sitter...