Junctions of surface operators and categorification of quantum groups

DOI10.1090/CONM/684/13749zbMATH Open1362.81050arXiv1507.06318OpenAlexW2132082687MaRDI QIDQ2979641FDOQ2979641

Sungbong Chun, Sergei Gukov, D. Roggenkamp

Publication date: 25 April 2017

Published in: Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how networks of Wilson lines realize quantum groups U_q(sl(m)), for arbitrary m, in 3d SU(N) Chern-Simons theory. Lifting this construction to foams of surface operators in 4d theory we find that rich structure of junctions is encoded in combinatorics of planar diagrams. For a particular choice of surface operators we reproduce known mathematical constructions of categorical representations and categorified quantum groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06318

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Geometry of quantum groups (58B32) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

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