Consistent Orientation of Moduli Spaces

zbMATH Open1257.19004arXiv0711.1909MaRDI QIDQ3078261FDOQ3078261

Authors: Daniel S. Freed, Constantin Teleman, Michael J. Hopkins 

Publication date: 18 February 2011

Abstract: We give an a priori construction of the two-dimensional reduction of three-dimensional quantum Chern-Simons theory. This reduction is a two-dimensional topological quantum field theory and so determines to a Frobenius ring, which here is the twisted equivariant K-theory of a compact Lie group. We construct the theory via correspondence diagrams of moduli spaces, which we "linearize" using complex K-theory. A key point in the construction is to consistently orient these moduli spaces to define pushforwards; the consistent orientation induces twistings of complex K-theory. The Madsen-Tillmann spectra play a crucial role.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1909

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zbMATH Keywords

TQFTtwisted \(K\)-theoryChern-Simon theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22)

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