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

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2021.072zbMATH Open1482.57035arXiv2001.05721MaRDI QIDQ2236613FDOQ2236613

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)

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.

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)

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