Categorification: tangle invariants and TQFTs (Q6198723)
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Categorification: tangle invariants and TQFTs (English)
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20 March 2024
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Topological Quantum Field Theories are a study of an interaction between mathematics and physics. A first mathematical formulation of TQFTs traces back to Atiyah, influenced by Segal and Witten. Based on different views on the Jones polynomial, the author reviews representation-theoretic categorified link and tangle invariants. She unifies them in a common combinatorial framework and connect them through the theory of Soergel bimodules. The influence of these categorifications on the development of 2-representation theory and the interaction between topological invariants and 2-categorical structures is discussed. Finally, the author indicates how categorified representations of quantum groups, on the one hand, and monoidal 2-categories of Soergel bimodules, on the other hand, might lead to new interesting 4-dimensional TQFTs. For the entire collection see [Zbl 07816356].
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Jones polynomial
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knot invariants
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categorification
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Topological Quantum Field Theory
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TQFT
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Khovanov homology
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category O
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Skew Howe duality
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quantum groups
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