4 papers
Generalized Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Sinéad M. Griffin, Michele Schiavina
We propose a new type of symmetry breaking mechanism that takes boundaries into account, and show how it can detect surface modes by interpreting them as the order parameter associ…
Asymptotic symmetries in the BV-BFV formalism
Kasia Rejzner, Michele Schiavina
We show how to derive asymptotic charges for field theories on manifolds with "asymptotic" boundary, using the BV-BFV formalism. We also prove that the conservation of said charges…
Ruelle zeta function from field theory
Charles Hadfield, Santosh Kandel, Michele Schiavina
We propose a field-theoretic interpretation of Ruelle zeta function, and show how it can be seen as the partition function for theory when an unusual gauge fixing condition on…
Towards holography in the BV-BFV setting
Pavel Mnev, Michele Schiavina, Konstantin Wernli
We show how the BV-BFV formalism provides natural solutions to descent equations, and discuss how it relates to the emergence of holographic counterparts of given gauge theories. F…