Mapping Class Group Representations From Non-Semisimple TQFTs

DOI10.1142/S0219199721500917MaRDI QIDQ6352442arXivFDO

Authors Marco De Renzi, A. M. Gainutdinov, Nathan Geer, Bertrand Patureau-Mirand, Ingo Runkel

Publication date 28 October 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219199721500917

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Braided monoidal categories and ribbon categories (18M15) Finite-type and quantum invariants, topological quantum field theories (TQFT) (57K16) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

arXiv classification

hep-thmath.GTmath.QA

Abstract: In [arXiv:1912.02063], we constructed 3-dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) using not necessarily semisimple modular categories. Here, we study projective representations of mapping class groups of surfaces defined by these TQFTs, and we express the action of a set of generators through the algebraic data of the underlying modular category $mathcalC$. This allows us to prove that the projective representations induced from the non-semisimple TQFTs of [arXiv:1912.02063] are equivalent to those obtained by Lyubashenko via generators and relations in [arXiv:hep-th/9405167]. Finally, we show that, when $mathcalC$ is the category of finite-dimensional representations of the small quantum group of $mathfrak{sl}_2$, the action of all Dehn twists for surfaces without marked points has infinite order.

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