A GNS construction of three-dimensional abelian Dijkgraaf-Witten theories

DOI10.1142/S0129055X18500058zbMATH Open1383.81268arXiv1703.05018OpenAlexW3105838668MaRDI QIDQ4603377FDOQ4603377

Authors: Lukas Müller, Christoph Schweigert 

Publication date: 20 February 2018

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a detailed account of the so-called "universal construction" that aims to extend invariants of closed manifolds, possibly with additional structure, to topological field theories and show that it amounts to a generalization of the GNS construction. We apply this construction to an invariant defined in terms of the groupoid cardinality of groupoids of bundles to recover Dijkgraaf-Witten theories, including the vector spaces obtained as a linearization of spaces of principal bundles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05018

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zbMATH Keywords

topological field theoryGNS constructionDijkgraaf-Witten theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

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