Edge contraction on dual ribbon graphs and 2D TQFT

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2017.09.027zbMATH Open1453.14134OpenAlexW2963674010WikidataQ123237694 ScholiaQ123237694MaRDI QIDQ1680271FDOQ1680271

Authors Olivia Dumitrescu, Motohico Mulase

Publication date 15 November 2017

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05922

zbMATH Keywords

topological quantum field theoryribbon graphsFrobenius algebrascell graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Applications of graph theory to circuits and networks (94C15) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Symplectic aspects of mirror symmetry, homological mirror symmetry, and Fukaya category (53D37)

Abstract: We present a new set of axioms for 2D TQFT formulated on the category of cell graphs with edge-contraction operations as morphisms. We construct a functor from this category to the endofunctor category consisting of Frobenius algebras. Edge-contraction operations correspond to natural transformations of endofunctors, which are compatible with the Frobenius algebra structure. Given a Frobenius algebra A, every cell graph determines an element of the symmetric tensor algebra defined over the dual space A*. We show that the edge-contraction axioms make this assignment depending only on the topological type of the cell graph, but not on the graph itself. Thus the functor generates the TQFT corresponding to A.

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