Sutured Floer homology, sutured TQFT and noncommutative QFT (Q640331)

In the paper under review, the author defines sutured topological quantum field theory, sutured TQFT, which associates every sutured background surface \((\Sigma, F)\) with an algebraic object \(V(\Sigma, F)\) such that certain TQFT-like axioms hold. Here a sutured background surface \((\Sigma, F)\) consists of a compact oriented surface \(\Sigma\) with non-empty boundary, and a finite set of points \(F\) on \(\partial\Sigma\). When \(V(\Sigma, F)\) is set to be the sutured Floer homology \(SFH(\sigma\times S^1, F\times S^1)\) with \(\mathbb{Z}\) coefficients, one obtains a sutured TQFT. This is the motivating example for sutured TQFT. Let \(D^2\) be the 2-dimensional disk and set \(V(D^2) = \oplus_F V(D^2, F)\). It is shown that \(V(D^2)\) is the \(\mathbb{Z}\)-span of chord diagrams mod a simple relation. It is also shown that \(V(D^2)\) is isomorphic to the Fock space of two noncommuting particles, the set of \(\mathbb{Z}\)-polynomials of 2 noncommuting variables.