Lifting supersymmetric quantum mechanics to loop space yields the superstring. A particle charged under a fiber bundle thereby turns into a string charged under a 2-bundle, or gerbe. This stringification is nothing but categorification. We look at supersymmetric quantum mechanics on loop space and demonstrate how deformations here give rise to superstring background fields and boundary states, ...

We study the role of rotational symmetry in the systems where nonabelian Berry potentials emerge as a result of integrating out fast degrees of freedom. The conserved angular momentum is constructed in the presence of a non-abelian Berry potential, which is formulated using Grassmann variables. The modifications on conventional angular momentum are discussed in close analogy with monopole syste...

We consider two aspects of Kronecker coefficients in the directions of representation theory and combinatorics. We consider a conjecture of Jan Saxl stating that the tensor square of the Sn-irreducible representation indexed by the staircase partition contains every irreducible representation of Sn. We present a sufficient condition allowing to determine whether an irreducible representation is...

The axion particle may or not exist, but the field can be used, as shown here, in an explicitly local formulation of a chiral U(1) gauge theory with both classical and quantum invariance. Nonabelian analogues fields, which have recently been introduced, together their special symmetries, similar construction nonabelian theories. As known cases, symmetry is broken boson acquires mass by swallowi...