On the monoidal structure of matrix bi-factorizations

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/27/275401MaRDI QIDQ3579944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nils Carqueville, Ingo Runkel

Publication date 11 August 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4381

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoriesLandau-Ginzburg modelsmatrix factorizationssupersymmetric field theoriestopological field theoriestwo-dimensional field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We investigate tensor products of matrix factorisations. This is most naturally done by formulating matrix factorisations in terms of bimodules instead of modules. If the underlying ring is C[x_1,...,x_N] we show that bimodule matrix factorisations form a monoidal category. This monoidal category has a physical interpretation in terms of defect lines in a two-dimensional Landau-Ginzburg model. There is a dual description via conformal field theory, which in the special case of W=x^d is an N=2 minimal model, and which also gives rise to a monoidal category describing defect lines. We carry out a comparison of these two categories in certain subsectors by explicitly computing 6j-symbols.

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