Orbifolds of n-dimensional defect TQFTs

DOI10.2140/GT.2019.23.781MaRDI QIDQ2632002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nils Carqueville, Ingo Runkel, Gregor Schaumann

Publication date 17 May 2019

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06085

zbMATH Keywords

defect TQFTgeneralised orbifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Categorical structures (18D99) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of $n$-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT) with defects as a symmetric monoidal functor on decorated stratified bordisms of dimension $n$. The familiar closed or open-closed TQFTs are special cases of defect TQFTs, and for $n=2$ and $n=3$ our general definition recovers what had previously been studied in the literature. Our main construction is that of "generalised orbifolds" for any $n$-dimensional defect TQFT: Given a defect TQFT $mathcalZ$, one obtains a new TQFT $mathcal{Z}_{mathcalA}$ by decorating the Poincar'e duals of triangulated bordisms with certain algebraic data $mathcalA$ and then evaluating with $mathcalZ$. The orbifold datum $mathcalA$ is constrained by demanding invariance under $n$-dimensional Pachner moves. This procedure generalises both state sum models and gauging of finite symmetry groups, for any $n$. After developing the general theory, we focus on the case $n=3$.

Review text

The authors first introduce the notion of an \(n\)-dimensional topological quantum field theory with defects. After an introductory section, this is defined as a symmetric monoidal functor on a category of stratified bordisms of dimension \(n\), which are decorated by `defect data'. The main contribution of the paper is given in Section 3. This is a notion of `generalised orbifold' for such a defect TQFT, \(\mathcal{Z}\). This is done by triangulating the bordisms and then decorating their Poincaré duals with certain algebraic data, followed by evaluation using \(\mathcal{Z}\). The orbifold datum is constrained by demanding invariance under \(n\)-dimensional Pachner moves. In their final section, they examine the interesting question of organising the defect labels into some form of `fairly strict \(n\)-category with duals' for any \(n\in \mathbb{Z}_+\). They give such a plan for \(n=2\) and \(n=3\) and examine, in detail, special orbifold data in pivotal bicategories and in Gray categories with duals.

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