A framework for geometric field theories and their classification in dimension one

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2021.072MaRDI QIDQ2236613zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matthias Ludewig, Augusto Stoffel

Publication date 25 October 2021

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05721

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zbMATH Keywords

vector bundlesfield theorybordism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: In this paper, we develop a general framework of geometric functorial field theories, meaning that all bordisms in question are endowed with geometric structures. We take particular care to establish a notion of smooth variation of such geometric structures, so that it makes sense to require the output of our field theory to depend smoothly on the input. We then test our framework on the case of $1$-dimensional field theories (with or without orientation) over a manifold $M$. Here the expectation is that such a field theory is equivalent to the data of a vector bundle over $M$ with connection and, in the nonoriented case, the additional data of a nondegenerate bilinear pairing; we prove that this is indeed the case in our framework.

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