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Christoph Schweigert

Christoph Schweigert

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Mathematics

D-Index
52
Citations
9762
World Ranking
970
National Ranking
50

Overview

Christoph Schweigert is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has a research focus primarily in mathematics and physics. Their scholarly work spans numerous subfields including geometry and topology, mathematical physics, algebra and number theory, statistical and nonlinear physics, and nuclear and high energy physics.

The main research topics covered in Schweigert's publications encompass:

  • Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
  • Homotopy and cohomology in algebraic topology
  • Advanced topics in algebra
  • Black holes and theoretical physics
  • Nonlinear waves and solitons
  • Advanced algebra and geometry
  • Geometric and algebraic topology

Schweigert has contributed extensively to several publication venues with a total of 126 records in mathematics and 32 in physics and astronomy. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 25 publications
  • Advances in Mathematics with 4 publications
  • Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications with 2 publications
  • Theory and Applications of Categories with 2 publications
  • Algebras and Representation Theory with 2 publications

Recent notable academic papers authored or co-authored by Christoph Schweigert include:

  • "Homotopy coherent mapping class group actions and excision for Hochschild complexes of modular categories," 2021, published in Advances in Mathematics
  • "CFT Correlators for Cardy Bulk Fields via String-Net Models," 2021, published in Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications
  • Contributions to "INTERNAL NATURAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND FROBENIUS ALGEBRAS IN THE DRINFELD CENTER," 2021, Transformation Groups (co-authored by Jürgen Fuchs)
  • Work on "Domain Walls Between 3d Phases of Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs," 2022, Communications in Mathematical Physics (co-authored by Vincent Koppen)
  • Joint research on "Bulk from boundary in finite CFT by means of pivotal module categories," 2021, Nuclear Physics B (co-authored by Jürgen Fuchs)

Christoph Schweigert's frequent collaborators include:

  • Jürgen Fuchs
  • Lukas Woike
  • Simon Lentner
  • Simon N. Wood
  • Yang Yang

Their contributions also extend to book publications with Springer Nature, including two recent works:

  • "Hochschild Cohomology, Modular Tensor Categories, and Mapping Class Groups I," 2023
  • "String-Net Construction of RCFT Correlators," 2022

Best Publications

  • TFT construction of RCFT correlators I: partition functions

    Jürgen Fuchs;Ingo Runkel;Christoph Schweigert

  • Symmetries, Lie Algebras and Representations: A Graduate Course for Physicists

    Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert

  • Duality and defects in rational conformal field theory

    Jürg Fröhlich;Jürgen Fuchs;Ingo Runkel;Christoph Schweigert

  • Flux stabilization of D-branes

    Constantin Bachas;Michael R. Douglas;Christoph Schweigert

  • Kramers-Wannier duality from conformal defects

    Jürg Fröhlich;Jürgen Fuchs;Ingo Runkel;Christoph Schweigert

  • Bicategories for boundary conditions and for surface defects in 3-d TFT

    Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert;Allessandro Valentino

  • The geometry of WZW branes

    Giovanni Felder;Jürg Fröhlich;Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert

  • TFT construction of RCFT correlators: III: simple currents

    Jürgen Fuchs;Ingo Runkel;Christoph Schweigert

  • Symmetry breaking boundary conditions and WZW orbifolds

    Lothar Birke;Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert

  • Symmetries, Lie Algebras and Representations

    Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert

  • Systematic Approach to Cyclic Orbifolds

    L. Borisov;M.B. Halpern;M.B. Halpern;C. Schweigert;C. Schweigert

  • FROM DYNKIN DIAGRAM SYMMETRIES TO FIXED POINT STRUCTURES

    Jürgen Fuchs;Bert Schellekens;Christoph Schweigert

  • Correspondences of ribbon categories

    Jürg Fröhlich;Jürgen Fuchs;Ingo Runkel;Christoph Schweigert

  • Defect Lines, Dualities and Generalised Orbifolds

    Jürg Fröhlich;Jürgen Fuchs;Ingo Runkel;Christoph Schweigert

  • A matrix S for all simple current extensions

    J. Fuchs;A.N.J.J. Schellekens;C. Schweigert

  • Correlation functions and boundary conditions in RCFT and three-dimensional topology

    Giovanni Felder;Jürg Fröhlich;Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert

  • Category theory for conformal boundary conditions

    Jürgen Fuchs;C. Schweigert

  • TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS FOR THE FREE BOSON CFT

    Jiirgen Fuchs;Matthias R. Gaberdiel;Ingo Runkel;Christoph Schweigert

  • A classifying algebra for boundary conditions

    Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert

  • Symmetry breaking boundaries: II. More structures; Examples

    Jürgen Fuchs;Christoph Schweigert

  • From Dynkin diagram symmetries to fixed point structures

    J"urgen Fuchs;Bert Schellekens;Christoph Schweigert

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Fuchs
Jürgen Fuchs Karlstad University
Ingo Runkel
Ingo Runkel Universität Hamburg
Johannes Walcher
Johannes Walcher Heidelberg University
Patrick Dorey
Patrick Dorey Durham University
Nicolás Andruskiewitsch
Nicolás Andruskiewitsch National University of Córdoba
John Cardy
John Cardy University of California, Berkeley
Frank Verstraete
Frank Verstraete Ghent University

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