On 2-dimensional Dijkgraaf-Witten theory with defects

DOI10.1142/S0218216516500218zbMATH Open1337.81104arXiv1507.00941OpenAlexW2964125879MaRDI QIDQ2805386FDOQ2805386

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)

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.

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

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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)

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