Towards the graviton from spinfoams: The complete perturbative expansion of the 3d toy model

We consider an exact expression for the 6j-symbol for the isosceles tetrahedron, involving SU(2)$\mathrm{SU}(2)$ group integrals, and use it to write the two-point function of 3d gravity on a single tetrahedron as a group integral. The perturbative expansion of this expression can then be performed with respect to the geometry of the boundary using a simple saddle-point analysis. We derive the complete expansion in inverse powers of the length scale and evaluate explicitly the quantum corrections up to second order. Finally, we use the same method to provide the complete expansion of the isosceles 6j-symbol with the explicit phases at all orders and the next-to-leading correction to the Ponzano–Regge asymptotics.     

Exterior problems in the half-space for the Laplace operator in weighted Sobolev spaces

The purpose of this work is to solve exterior problems in the half-space for the Laplace operator. We give existence and unicity results in weighted Lp's theory with 1<p<∞. This paper extends the studies done in [C. Amrouche, V. Girault, J. Giroire, Dirichlet and Neumann exterior problems for the n-dimensional Laplace operator, an approach in weighted Sobolev spaces, J. Math. Pures Appl. 76 (1) (1997) 55-81] with Dirichlet and Neumann conditions.     

A New Recursion Relation for the 6j-Symbol

The 6j-symbol is a fundamental object from the re-coupling theory of SU(2) representations. In the limit of large angular momenta, its asymptotics is known to be described by the geometry of a tetrahedron with quantized lengths. This article presents a new recursion formula for the square of the 6j-symbol. In the asymptotic regime, the new recursion is shown to characterize the closure of the relevant tetrahedron. Since the 6j-symbol is the basic building block of the Ponzano–Regge model for pure three-dimensional quantum gravity, we also discuss how to generalize the method to derive more general recursion relations on the full amplitudes.     

Diagrammatic proof of the large N melonic dominance in the SYK model

Letters in Mathematical Physics - A crucial result on the celebrated Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model is that its large N limit is dominated by melonic graphs. In this letter, we offer a...     

The Ising model on random lattices in arbitrary dimensions

We study analytically the Ising model coupled to random lattices in dimension three and higher. The family of random lattices we use is generated by the large N limit of a colored tensor model generalizing the two-matrix model for Ising spins on random surfaces. We show that, in the continuum limit, the spin system does not exhibit a phase transition at finite temperature, in agreement with numerical investigations. Furthermore we outline a general method to study critical behavior in colored tensor models.     

Exterior Stokes problem in the half-space

The purpose of this work is to solve the exterior Stokes problem in the half-space . We study the existence and the uniqueness of generalized solutions in weighted L ^p theory with 1 < p < ∞. Moreover, we consider the case of strong solutions and very weak solutions. This paper extends the studies done in Alliot, Amrouche (Math. Methods Appl. 23:575–600, 2000) for an exterior Stokes problem in the whole space and in Amrouche, Bonzom (Exterior Problems in the Half-space, submitted) for the Laplace equation in the same geometry as here.      

Bubble Divergences from Twisted Cohomology

We consider a class of lattice topological field theories, among which are the weak-coupling limit of 2d Yang-Mills theory and 3d Riemannian quantum gravity, whose dynamical variables are flat discrete connections with compact structure group on a cell 2-complex. In these models, it is known that the path integral measure is ill-defined because of a phenomenon known as ‘bubble divergences’. In this paper, we extend recent results of the authors to the cases where these divergences cannot be understood in terms of cellular cohomology. We introduce in its place the relevant twisted cohomology, and use it to compute the divergence degree of the partition function. We also relate its dominant part to the Reidemeister torsion of the complex, thereby generalizing previous results of Barrett and Naish-Guzman. The main limitation to our approach is the presence of singularities in the representation variety of the fundamental group of the complex; we illustrate this issue in the well-known case of two-dimensional manifolds.     

Mixed exterior Laplace's problem

In [C. Amrouche, V. Girault, J. Giroire, Dirichlet and Neumann exterior problems for the n-dimensional Laplace operator. An approach in weighted Sobolev spaces, J. Math. Pures Appl. 76 (1997) 55-81], authors study Dirichlet and Neumann problems for the Laplace operator in exterior domains of Rn. This paper extends this study to the resolution of a mixed exterior Laplace's problem. Here, we give existence, unicity and regularity results in Lp's theory with 1<p<∞, in weighted Sobolev spaces.