A geometric approach to boundaries and surface defects in Dijkgraaf-Witten theories

DOI10.1007/s00220-014-2067-0zbMath1308.81154arXiv1307.3632OpenAlexW2047321983MaRDI QIDQ462881

Alessandro Valentino, Jürgen Fuchs, Christoph Schweigert

Publication date: 22 October 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3632

zbMATH Keywords

Dijkgraaf-Witten theorieslinearization of categories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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