Gauge Fields in Arithmetic, Topology & Physics

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Gauge Fields in Arithmetic, Topology & Physics

 06 - 10 Mar 2023

ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh

Scientific Organiser(s):

  • Dohyeong Kim, Seoul National University
  • Masanori Morishita, Kyushu University
  • Adam Morgan, University of Glasgow
  • Amina Abdurrahman, IHES

About:

There is a history of fruitful links between low-dimensional topology and number theory, going back at least to Mazur's observation that primes in number rings can be viewed as analogues of knots in a 3-manifold. More recently, the introduction of arithmetic gauge theory by M. Kim and collaborators paves the way to further bring ideas from theoretical physics to bear on fundamental problems in number theory and arithmetic geometry. 

This conference aimed to explore this exciting new direction, and the links between number theory, topology and physics in general, with a particular focus on the role played by gauge fields as a unifying framework. In doing this, we brought together experts and early career researchers in each of the areas mentioned above, with a view to fostering new collaborations and enabling participants to become acquainted with recent developments.

Programme:

Monday 6 March
Registration and Refreshments
Welcome and Housekeeping
Nadav Gropper, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Surfaces and p-adic fields
Rajath Radhakrishnan, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Integral Combinations of Characters from 2D TQFTs
Tynan Ochse, University of Texas at Austin Towards arithmetic Floer cohomology
Lunch
Jonathan Pridham, University of Edinburgh Derived analytic moduli of Galois representations with shifted symplectic structures
Refreshments
Sergei Gukov, DIAS / Caltech 3d Modularity Conjecture
Welcome Reception, hosted at ICMS
Tuesday 7 March
Oren Ben-Bassat, University of Haifa Banach Algebraic Geometry
Refreshments
Jack Kelly, Trinity College Dublin Bornological Spectra and Bounded Cohomology
Ryoto Tange, Waseda University L-invariants for representations of knot groups
Toshiki Matsusaka, Kyushu University Hikami’s observations on unified WRT invariants and false theta functions
Lunch
Hiroaki Karuo, Gakushuin University The reduced Dijkgraaf--Witten invariant of knots in the Bloch group of a finite field
Refreshments
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, ICTP Character varieties for unitary groups
Wednesday 8 March
Jeehoon Park, QSMS / Seoul National University The Cassels-Tate pairings and the arithmetic BF theory for Selmer groups
Refreshments
Jun Ueki, Ochanomizu University p-adic torsion growth in p-adic towers
Jay Swar, University of Oxford Symplectic structures on Selmer schemes
Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania Enhanced moduli of D-branes and superpotentials
Lunch
Thursday 9 March
Amina Abdurrahman, IHES Square roots of symplectic L-functions and Reidemeister torsion
Refreshments
Akihito Mori, Tohoku University Relations between Reshetikhin--Turaev and re-normalized link invariants
Wataru Kai, Tohoku University / University of Milan The Green-Tao theorem for number fields (and beyond)
Masanori Morishita, Kyushu University Symbols on 3-manifolds and conformal field theory
Lunch
Magnus Carlson, Stockholm University Massey products in étale cohomology
Refreshments
Yuya Murakami, Tohoku University A proof of a conjecture by Gukov-Pei-Putrov-Vafa
Workshop Dinner, hosted at Blonde Restaurant
Friday 10 March
Christopher Deninger, University of Münster Dynamical systems for arithmetic schemes
Refreshments
Yifei Zhao, University of Münster Langlands parametrization for covering groups
End of Workshop

Sponsors and Funders:

  • ICMS
  • GMJT
  • NRF
  • Heilbronn
  • UKRI