/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8675119
>be instructor for an intro to QM class
>after finishing up spin I ask the class if there are any questions
>no one asks anything
>average on the midterm is 60%
>mfw

>>8515730
Well my root-finding numerical code for a system of gap equations isn't converging, and there's literally nothing that can be extrapolated from the analytic expressions since they're in a form as open as my asshole after a night out.

On the other hand the paper relating the holonomy formalism and the principal bundle formalism of gauge theory turns out to be not what I had anticipated. The author defines the generalized holonomy map [math]H: L_x \rightarrow G[/math] as a homomorphism on path-equivalent curves [math]L_x \ni \gamma: [0,1]\rightarrow M[/math] based at [math]x[/math] to a Lie group [math]G[/math], which makes this rather distinct from the braid group approach. I don't think the connection between the braid group and Chern-Simons theory approach of particle statistics can be established just by this paper. There will still be work needed to be done in order to relate what the generalized holonomy map describes to what the braid group describes.
I never had high hopes for this project desu. If a world-renowned physicist tells you that your idea is a dead-end, he might be right.

>>8406635
That sounds like total fucking garbage. Keep your masturbatory abstract bullshit to yourself and out of physics.