Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces and projective representations of groups

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2007.08.009MaRDI QIDQ2469971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir Turaev

Publication date 11 February 2008

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0160

zbMATH Keywords

surfacesprojective representationsstate-sum invariantsDijkgraaf-Witten invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25)

Abstract: We compute the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces in terms of projective representations of groups. As an application we prove that the complex Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces of positive genus are positive integers.

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