Multiplicative expression for the coefficient in fermionic 3-3 relation

DOI10.3390/MATH4010003MaRDI QIDQ272104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor G. Korepanov

Publication date 20 April 2016

Published in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02272

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic realizations of Pachner moves four-dimensional TQFT Grassmann-Gaussian exponents piecewise-linear TQFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of commutative algebra (e.g., to statistics, control theory, optimization, etc.) (13P25) PL-topology (57Q99) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: Recently, a family of fermionic relations were discovered corresponding to Pachner move 3-3 and parameterized by complex-valued 2-cocycles, where the weight of a pentachoron (4-simplex) is a Grassmann-Gaussian exponent. Here, the proportionality coefficient between Berezin integrals in the l.h.s. and r.h.s. of such relations is written in a form multiplicative over simplices.

Review text

This paper is the fourth in a series by the author, the first three being [the author, Special 2-cocycles and 3--3 Pachner move relations in Grassmann algebra, {\url arXiv:1301.5581}; the author and \textit{N. M. Sadykov}, SIGMA, Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl. 9, Paper 053, 19 p., electronic only (2013; Zbl 1288.15033); the author, Lett. Math. Phys. 104, No. 10, 1235--1261 (2014; Zbl 1327.15057)]. As with any series, individual episodes can be fun and include a bit of the backstory from earlier installments, but most of the main characters are only fully introduced in the premier. The theme for the series is the construction of ``state sum style TQFTs for four-dimensional triangulated manifolds. The interesting proviso is that rather than a typical state sum, here the ``states comprise a purely-odd space, and the ``state sum is a Berezinian integral. Specifically, the author considers models in which one fermionic variable is attached to each 3-dimensional facet of a triangulation and the Boltzmann weights, attached to 4-dimensional facets, are Grassmann--Gaussian. The previous papers resulted in a formula, reviewed here, for a specific Boltzmann weight that is likely to lead to a fully-fledged TQFT. (This reviewer thinks it is unlikely that a purely-Gaussian, a.k.a. ``free, theory will produce particularly interesting TQFTs, and expects the end result of this series to be a simplicial description of some known cohomological invariants of 4-manifolds. This reviewer hopes to be proven wrong.)NEWLINENEWLINEIn order to define any ``state sum TQFT on triangulated manifolds, the definer must show invariance of the prescription under the well-known Pachner moves. This paper and its predecessors focus on the most interested Pachner move in four dimensions, the so-called ``3-3 move replacing three 4-simplices meeting at a common 2-simplex with a different arrangement of three 4-simplices meeting at a common 2-simplex. The paper's most immediate prequel ended with the following cliffhanger: for the Boltzmann weight chosen, the 3-3 move multiplies the state sum by some specific constant, but what is that constant? This paper answers that question with explicit formulas.

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