Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces and projective representations of groups

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2007.08.009zbMATH Open1163.57021arXiv0706.0160OpenAlexW2037204384MaRDI QIDQ2469971FDOQ2469971

Authors: Vladimir Turaev 

Publication date: 11 February 2008

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

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.

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

Recommendations

• On Dijkgraaf-Witten-type invariants
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3948596
• Representations of surface groups and Higgs bundles
• Witt groups of curves and surfaces
• The Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of circle bundles
• Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of algebraic surfaces
• ON TURAEV'S THEOREM ABOUT DIJKGRAAF–WITTEN INVARIANTS OF SURFACES
• Hurwitz groups and surfaces
• Representations of surface groups in the projective general linear group

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)

Cites Work

• Lattice topological field theory in two dimensions
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Topological gauge theories and group cohomology
• Chern-Simons theory with finite gauge group
• Higher algebraic structures and quantization
• On Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant for 3-manifolds
• ENUMERATION OF HOMOMORPHISMS AND SURFACE-COVERINGS
• On blocks of twisted group algebras
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Lattice topological field theory on nonorientable surfaces
• Title not available (Why is that?)

Cited In (14)

• 2d TQFTs and baby universes
• Orientation twisted homotopy field theories and twisted unoriented Dijkgraaf-Witten theory
• The super Frobenius-Schur indicator and finite group gauge theories on \(\mathrm{pin}^-\) surfaces
• Dijkgraaf-Witten type invariants of Seifert surfaces in 3-manifolds
• Frobenius-Schur indicators for twisted Real representation theory and two dimensional unoriented topological field theory
• SU(2)-Donaldson invariants of the complex projective plane
• Invariants and TQFT's for cut cellular surfaces from finite 2-groups
• The Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of Seifert 3-manifolds with orientable bases
• Applying TQFT to count regular coverings of Seifert 3-manifolds
• Explicit cocycle formulas on finite abelian groups with applications to braided linear Gr-categories and Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants
• ON TURAEV'S THEOREM ABOUT DIJKGRAAF–WITTEN INVARIANTS OF SURFACES
• The Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of circle bundles
• Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants over \(\mathbb Z_2\) for 3-manifolds
• Integrality, duality and finiteness in combinatoric topological strings

This page was built for publication: Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces and projective representations of groups

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2469971)