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A Supernova Constraint on F-theory
Sebastian Vander Ploeg Fallon, James Halverson, Liam McAllister +1
We study constraints on the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) axion in F-theory, a strongly coupled limit of string theory. We build models of QCD from compactifications to four dimensi…
Anomalies in Neural Network Field Theory
Christian Ferko, Samuel Frank, James Halverson +1
Neural network field theory (NN-FT) formulates field theory in terms of a network architecture and a density on its parameters. We derive Schwinger--Dyson equations and Ward identi…
Small Vacuum Energy and Tunneling in a Modified Bousso-Polchinski Model
James Halverson, Justin Khoury, Cody Long
We propose a simplified model for the cosmological constant in string theory flux vacua motivated by type IIB and F-theory compactifications. Relative to the Bousso-Polchinski mode…
Topological Effects in Neural Network Field Theory
Christian Ferko, James Halverson, Vishnu Jejjala +1
Neural network field theory formulates field theory as a statistical ensemble of fields defined by a network architecture and a density on its parameters. We extend the constructio…
Neural Network Field Theories: Non-Gaussianity, Actions, and Locality
Mehmet Demirtas, James Halverson, Anindita Maiti +2
Both the path integral measure in field theory and ensembles of neural networks describe distributions over functions. When the central limit theorem can be applied in the infinite…
Searching for ribbons with machine learning
Sergei Gukov, James Halverson, Ciprian Manolescu +1
We apply Bayesian optimization and reinforcement learning to a problem in topology: the question of when a knot bounds a ribbon disk. This question is relevant in an approach to di…