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Physics
691 research topics · 2739 questions
Restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) model3 questions
Completing the lattice-to-continuum correspondence for integrable seams in unitary and nonunitary A-D-E minimal models: r-type seams, noncommutative fusion algebras, and nonunitary dilogarithm identities
Sublinear variance bounds and the fluctuation order of the continuous-time restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) surface growth model
Open problems in the factorization of reduced density matrices of the critical RSOS models: topological sectors, four-site decomposition, massive regimes, and rigorous foundations
Rogers–Ramanujan identities2 questions
Root-of-unity structure2 questions
Completing the categorical Temperley-Lieb framework: weakened rigidity for at roots of unity, the dilute commutor versus integrable 19-vertex weights, and fusion with braiding for the blob and affine families
Open for about 8 yearsRigorous passage from the Jones quotients of the Temperley-Lieb algebras to the Virasoro minimal unitary models
Open for about 9 years
RTT relation3 questions
Structural completion of the deformed (braided) gl(2|2) Yangian: the Yangian double, quantum determinant and center, crossing monodromy, and the secret-symmetry tower
Open for about 12 yearsIdentifying the -Pochhammer, Dickson, and Bessel algebras of the orthogonalization of Yangians
Completeness of the nested Bethe ansatz for the RTT algebra of sp(4) type (extended Yangian of sp(4))
Scaling Potts model2 questions
Exchange-versus-bootstrap S-matrix crossover in the near-critical three-state quantum Potts chain: the scale p* and its dangerously irrelevant origin
Universal critical-amplitude ratios of the two-dimensional four-state Potts universality class: settling the two-kink form-factor versus Monte Carlo/series discrepancy
Sine-Gordon model4 questions
Full construction of the subcritical sine-Gordon Euclidean field theory: all couplings and in infinite volume, massive and massless
Charge-conjugation-odd conserved quantities underlying ballistic topological-charge transport in the sine-Gordon model
Renormalised higher-spin conserved currents of the massless sine-Gordon model: correlation functions, convergence, and quantum corrections
Form factors of the U(1) composite branch-point twist field in the soliton-antisoliton sector of the sine-Gordon model
Sklyanin algebra4 questions
Isomorphism classification of three-generator Sklyanin algebras over fields of characteristic 3 and over fields without a nontrivial cubic root of unity
Open for about 5 yearsDirect continuum quantization of the anisotropic Landau–Lifshitz model and the continuum origin of the Sklyanin algebra
Open for about 17 yearsZariski cancellation for Sklyanin algebras of dimension at least three (the PI and four-dimensional cases)
Open for about 8 yearsMaximal level of a good specialization and explicit forms of the dimension- irreducible representations of a PI 4-dimensional Sklyanin algebra
Slavnov-type scalar product1 questions
SOS height variables4 questions
The scaling limit of the integer-valued solid-on-solid model in the rough phase
Thermodynamic limit of the elliptic SOS model with domain-wall boundaries at general anisotropy, and its connection to the three-colouring functional equations
Layering transitions, exact wetting point, and critical behavior of the two-dimensional Solid-on-Solid wetting model beyond the low-temperature regime
Macroscopic shape of the (2+1)-dimensional solid-on-solid surface with wall pinning in the delocalized phase: two-level concentration, pinning-dependent height shift, and level-line scaling limits
Square Lattice Eight-Vertex Model7 questions
Symmetry algebra underlying the transfer-matrix degeneracies of the eight-vertex model at elliptic roots of unity
Open for about 20 yearsAnalytic foundations of the new Q-matrix for the eight-vertex model at roots of unity: regularity, functional relations, and the similarity structure
Open for about 19 yearsRigorous fluctuation theory for the stochastic eight-vertex model: Boltzmann–Gibbs replacement principles, the two-noise KPZ–Burgers limit SPDE, and classification of translation-invariant invariant measures
Open for about 5 yearsConjecture 5.1 of Hagendorf and Liénardy: an eigenvalue formula for the inhomogeneous supersymmetric eight-vertex model on a strip
Open for about 6 yearsCritical behavior of the eight-vertex model in electric fields beyond the subspace: robustness of weak universality and the electric critical exponents
Open for about 10 yearsFinite-lattice integrability of the free-fermion odd eight-vertex model: commuting transfer matrices for the asymmetric and staggered cases
Open for about 8 yearsForm factors of local operators and correlation functions of the inhomogeneous eight-vertex (XYZ) model via the generalized algebraic Bethe ansatz
Open for about 6 years
Square-Lattice Ising Model5 questions
Coexistence of infinite and clusters in the Ising model on the square matching lattice for all subcritical temperatures
Open for less than 1 yearContinuity, critical-current geometry, and Pfaffian universality for two-dimensional finite-range Ising models
Open for about 8 yearsDifferential-equation characterization of the leading finite-size corrections to the two-dimensional Ising two-point scaling function in general lattice position
Open for about 50 yearsExistence of a nonlinear Painlevé-type ordinary differential equation for the row correlation functions of the two-dimensional Ising model
Open for about 46 yearsFisher-zero accumulation geometry and free-energy analyticity of the square-lattice Ising model at generic nonzero magnetic field
Open for about 30 years
STM single-atom/molecule manipulation and applications in nanotechnology6 questions
Generalization, tip-change robustness, and physical interpretation of deep-reinforcement-learning control in autonomous atom manipulation
Open for about 3 yearsReal-time dynamics, interfacial-charge mechanism, and directionality control of electrostatically driven long-distance single-molecule motion on surfaces
Open for about 5 yearsSaturation capacity, atomic-scale structure, method generality, and catalytic/magnetic properties of atom-by-atom assembled clusters in Si(111)-(7×7) half-unit cells by mechanical gating
Open for about 12 yearsClosing the autonomy and inverse-design loop for atom-by-atom fabrication of artificial lattices with designer electronic states
Open for about 1 yearGate-controlled reconfiguration and coherent dynamics of atom-assembled quantum-dot molecules on InAs(111)A
Open for about 11 yearsVerified atomic identity, transfer to Si(001), and encapsulation of phosphorus implanted into silicon by STM-tip manipulation of
Open for about 5 years
stochastic vertex models3 questions
Interpolation between the stochastic telegraph equation and KPZ fluctuation limits of the stochastic six-vertex model
Half-space symmetry classification for the colored stochastic six-vertex model: Galashin-type characterization and shift invariance for height functions not crossing the diagonal
Exact non-equilibrium steady state of the boundary-driven multispecies harmonic process: factorised form and mixture representation
TBA and the -system3 questions
Equivalence between the decoupled sine-Gordon thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz system and the conjectured sine-Gordon Y-system
Open analytic problems in the thermodynamics of Inozemtsev's elliptic spin chain: string classification, supersymmetric equivalence, and reduction of the elliptic Y-system
Non-principal ('snake') -systems and exact finite-size corrections for the twisted and lattice models
Temperley–Lieb algebra2 questions
Iterated binary fusion versus single m-fold fusion for families of modules over the enlarged periodic Temperley–Lieb algebra
Open for less than 1 yearCompleting the exact solution of the -invariant non-compact boundary XXZ chain: two-boundary Temperley–Lieb representation theory at roots of unity, indecomposable boundary weights, critical scaling limits, and fusion
Open for about 4 years
tensor network renormalization(TNR)2 questions
tensor renormalization group(TRG)2 questions
Large- volume independence in the tensor renormalization group beyond two-dimensional pure gauge: self-similar singular-value spectra in and topological volume independence with matter fields
Predictive theory of bond-dimension convergence and truncation-induced length scales in plain tensor renormalization group
The Mean Field Model7 questions
Clustering transition and Bethe-state decomposition for Gibbs measures on sparse random graphs
Open for about 21 yearsFinite- crossover from Vlasov to Boltzmann-Gibbs critical behavior in the Hamiltonian mean-field model
Open for about 13 yearsGlobal complex-temperature phase diagram of the Curie–Weiss model: the critical curve conjecture of Shamis and Zeitouni
Open for about 9 yearsExtending force-monopole micromechanics of a mean-field glass model to sparse connectivity, mesoscopic-elasticity/boson-peak predictions, and driven dynamics
Open for less than 1 yearVlasov response, fluctuation-dissipation, and collective 1/f fluctuations in mean-field classical Heisenberg spin systems beyond second-order transitions
Open for about 7 yearsNuclear spectral theory for the Ruelle–Araki transfer operator beyond exponential decay: one-dimensional interactions with polynomial and stretched-exponential tails
Open for about 46 yearsFinite-γ spontaneous magnetization of the layered Kac Ising model at the mean-field critical temperature and its convergence to the Lebowitz–Penrose phase diagram
Open for about 11 years
The One-dimensional Ising Model1 questions
The Spherical Model6 questions
Out-of-equilibrium dynamics and thermodynamics of the active spherical model
Open for about 4 yearsHierarchical Heisenberg-to-spherical convergence in the local potential approximation and the viscosity expansion of the renormalization-group PDE
Open for about 18 yearsOnset of nonconcavity and ensemble nonequivalence in the microcanonical entropy of the spherical model as the interaction range is varied, and genericity of two-transition microcanonical phase diagrams for short-range ferromagnets
Open for about 16 yearsRobustness of momentum-interaction-induced re-entrant quantum criticality beyond the exactly solved spin-anisotropic quantum spherical model
Open for about 11 yearsExact finite-size scaling of the three-dimensional mean spherical model with Neumann–Dirichlet boundary conditions and surface fields in the regime at and below the film critical point
Open for about 20 yearsDemagnetization artifact and ternary extensions in exactly solvable multicomponent spherical models of fluid criticality
Open for about 17 years
thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz(TBA)4 questions
Well-posedness of the generalized thermodynamic Bethe ansatz beyond the repulsive Lieb-Liniger model: string, nested and attractive structures, and non-polynomial driving functions
Global solution of the infinite thermodynamic Bethe-ansatz string hierarchy of the one-dimensional attractive Hubbard model
Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz completeness for the surface free energy of the open XXZ spin-1/2 chain
Analytic foundations of the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz solution to the Donaldson-Thomas Riemann-Hilbert problem of the A2 quiver (deformed cubic oscillator)
Theta functions4 questions
Rigorous analytic status of the theta-function Zamolodchikov-algebra constructions for the Belavin model: the -dependence of the case-2 alternative algebra
Exact grand partition functions, modularity, and quantization conditions for the orientifold ABJ Fermi gas at general Chern-Simons level
Exact solution of the elliptic and hyperbolic near-neighbors Jastrow models beyond the ground state: excited eigenfunctions, spin generalizations, and correlation functions
Theta-function solution space of the level-one elliptic qKZB equation: wheel-condition classification and the first-excited-state conjecture in the three-colour model
Theta function algebraic identities1 questions
Theta function series expansion2 questions
Liu's Conjecture 3.10: the degeneration of a degree-eight theta-function identity to a quadratic-character logarithmic series
Open problems on the Rogers–Ramanujan dissection of a theta function: multi-factor dissections, an -parameter companion family, physical interpretation, and partition-theoretic content
Tracy–Widom distribution1 questions
transfer-matrix fixed point1 questions
Tutte Polynomial2 questions
Completing the approximability classification of the parameterized Tutte polynomial at rational points with
Open for about 5 yearsCompleting the approximability classification of the Tutte polynomial of a planar graph: the unclassified points of the Tutte plane and the strength of the hardness conclusions
Open for about 17 years
twisted boundary condition4 questions
Ergodicity under twist switching, finite-time twist dynamics, and out-of-equilibrium extensions of integrable set-theoretical Markov processes (twisted SSEP)
Closure of the quantum separation-of-variables program for twisted spin chains and the inhomogeneous Hubbard model
Universal overlap formula for integrable matrix product states of rational spin chains under twisted boundary conditions
Classification, Hamiltonian structure, and quantum S-matrices of -twisted trigonometric sigma models
ultraviolet CFT limit3 questions
Analytic completion of the kink-NLIE derivation of the ultraviolet OPE coefficients of the sine-Gordon model
Completing the massless S-matrix bootstrap classification of UV-complete RG flows from 2D coset CFTs
Analytic ultraviolet solution of the Tracy-Widom TBA for the boundary sinh-Gordon g-function and quantitative comparison with Liouville boundary conformal field theory
universal -matrix4 questions
Universal -matrix of the double-parameter quantum affine superalgebra of type
Open for less than 1 yearUniversal R-matrix and representation theory of the braided Yangian of centrally extended su(2|2) in planar AdS/CFT
Open for about 19 yearsExplicit closed-form expressions for the factors of the universal R-matrix of the Yangian double in rank at least two
Open for about 30 yearsLight-cone lattice discretizations from the universal R-matrix: completing the algebraic status of the renormalised R-operator and the analytic spectral characterisation for general rank
Open for about 11 years
van der Waals Fluid and Classical Critical Exponents2 questions
Microscopic first-principles determination of the fluctuon parameters in the heterophase-fluctuation theory of the critical compressibility factor
Open for about 6 yearsMicroscopic foundation of the Barra–Moro finite-size van der Waals partition function and its Pearcey critical scaling
Open for about 11 years
Virasoro Minimal Model4 questions
Explicit classical limits of irreducible Virasoro minimal-model modules: closed Poisson generators for the boundary family and the associated graded beyond it
All-orders cancellation of non-physical resonance poles in Zamolodchikov-type recursion relations for Virasoro minimal models
Regularisation of non-regular translation-invariant defect perturbations compatible with the bulk commutation condition in two-dimensional perturbed CFTs
The singular support of the Virasoro minimal models beyond the Ising model: finite generation and explicit structure of the kernel differential ideal
Wronskian Relations2 questions
Reality conditions on the coefficient matrix in the Wronskian and Casoratian condition equations for the KdV equation and the Toda lattice
Open for about 20 yearsGauge-covariant formulation and complete integrable structure of the nonlocal PT-symmetric multicomponent nonlinear Schrödinger hierarchies on symmetric spaces
Open for about 8 years
XYZ Chain Spectrum3 questions
Ground state of the odd-length XYZ spin chain at the combinatorial point: the inhomogeneous eigenvalue conjecture and the polynomial-combinatorial structure of its components
Open for about 16 yearsThe inhomogeneous transfer-matrix eigenvalue conjectures for the supersymmetric eight-vertex model (open strip and periodic)
Completeness of the homogeneous T-Q ansatz for the 8-vertex model with quasi-periodic boundary conditions and an odd number of sites
Yang Spontaneous Magnetization2 questions
Emergent planarity at criticality: continuity, current mixing, crossing estimates, and Pfaffian order–disorder structure for two-dimensional finite-range Ising models
Open for about 8 yearsSpontaneous magnetization of the Ising model on the kagome lattice: a rigorous derivation from the Kanô–Naya free energy