On 2-dimensional Dijkgraaf-Witten theory with defects

DOI10.1142/S0218216516500218MaRDI QIDQ2805386zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aria L. Dougherty, Hwajin Park, D. N. Yetter

Publication date 11 May 2016

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00941

zbMATH Keywords

defectstopological quantum field theoryDijkgraaf-Witten theoryflag-like triangulationstate-sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) PL-topology (57Q99)

Abstract: In this paper, we provide a construction of a state-sum model for finite gauge-group Dijkgraaf-Witten theory on surfaces with codimension 1 defects. The construction requires not only that the triangulation be subordinate to the filtration, but flag-like: each simplex of the triangulation is either disjoint from the defect curve, or intersects it in a closed face. The construction allows internal degrees of freedom in the defect curves by introducing a second gauge-group from which edges of the curve are labeled in the state-sum construction. Edges incident with the defect, but not lying in it, have states lying in a set with commuting actions of the two gauge-groups. We determine the appropriate generalizations of the 2-cocycles specifying twistings of defect-free 2D Dijkgraaf-Witten theory. Examples arising by restriction of group 2-cocycles, and constructed from characters of the 2-dimensional guage group are presented. This research was carried out at Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research (SUMaR) math REU at Kansas State University, funded by NSF under DMS award #1262877.

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