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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Analytic Torsion and Spectral Gap Capture Persistent-Laplacian Performance

Jernej Grlj, Aaron D. Lauda

While persistent Laplacians (PL) offer a richer geometric representation of data than persistent homology, utilizing their full eigenspectrum for learning tasks is often hampered b…

quant-ph2026

Robust Universal Braiding with Non-semisimple Ising Anyons

Filippo Iulianelli, Sung Kim, Joshua Sussan +1

Non-semisimple extensions of the Ising anyon model developed in our previous work enable universal topological quantum computation via braiding alone, overcoming the Clifford-only…

math.QA2026

Action of the Witt algebra on categorified quantum groups

Jernej Grlj, Aaron D. Lauda

We construct an action of the positive Witt algebra on the categorified quantum group associated to a simply-laced Lie algebra. In the type A case, we show that this action induces…

math.GT2025

Density and unitarity of the Burau representation from a non-semisimple TQFT

Nathan Geer, Aaron D. Lauda, Bertrand Patureau-Mirand +1

We study the density of the Burau representation from the perspective of a non-semisimple TQFT at a fourth root of unity. This gives a TQFT construction of Squier's Hermitian form…

quant-ph2025

Universal quantum computation using Ising anyons from a non-semisimple Topological Quantum Field Theory

Filippo Iulianelli, Sung Kim, Joshua Sussan +1

We propose a framework for topological quantum computation using newly discovered non-semisimple analogs of topological quantum field theories in 2+1 dimensions. These enhanced the…

math.GT2025

A quantum algorithm for Khovanov homology

Alexander Schmidhuber, Michele Reilly, Paolo Zanardi +2

Khovanov homology is a topological knot invariant that categorifies the Jones polynomial, recognizes the unknot, and is conjectured to appear as an observable in supersymmetri…