Non-semi-simple TQFTs, Reidemeister torsion and Kashaev's invariants

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.06.003zbMATH Open1412.57025arXiv1404.7289OpenAlexW2962962227MaRDI QIDQ305705FDOQ305705

Nathan Geer, Francesco Costantino, Christian Blanchet, Bertrand Patureau-Mirand

Publication date: 30 August 2016

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

Abstract: We construct and study a new family of TQFTs based on nilpotent highest weight representations of quantum sl(2) at a root of unity indexed by generic complex numbers. This extends to cobordisms the non-semi-simple invariants defined in (arXiv:1202.3553) including the Kashaev invariant of links. Here the modular category framework does not apply and we use the ``universal construction. Our TQFT provides a monoidal functor from a category of surfaces and their cobordisms into the category of graded finite dimensional vector spaces and their degree 0-morphisms and depends on the choice of a root of unity of order 2r. The functor is always symmetric monoidal but for even values of r the braiding on GrVect has to be the super-symmetric one, thus our TQFT may be considered as a super-TQFT. In the special case r=2 our construction yields a TQFT for a canonical normalization of Reidemeister torsion and we re-prove the classification of Lens spaces via the non-semi-simple quantum invariants defined in (arXiv:1202.3553). We prove that the representations of mapping class groups and Torelli groups resulting from our constructions are potentially more sensitive than those obtained from the standard Reshetikhin-Turaev functors; in particular we prove that the action of the bounding pairs generators of the Torelli group has always infinite order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7289

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zbMATH Keywords

Reidemeister torsion3-manifold invariantsKashaev invariantmapping class group representationsrepresentations of quantum groupstopological quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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