Extended TQFTs via generators and relations I: The extended toric code

DOI10.1142/S0219199720500546zbMATH Open1478.57033arXiv2001.08191OpenAlexW3041760527MaRDI QIDQ5002183FDOQ5002183

Authors: Bruce Bartlett, Gerrit Goosen 

Publication date: 27 July 2021

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

Abstract: In his PhD thesis, Goosen combined the string-net and the generators-and-relations formalisms for arbitrary once-extended 3-dimensional TQFTs. In this paper we work this out in detail for the simplest non-trivial example, where the underlying spherical fusion category is the category of $mathbbZ/2mathbbZ$-graded vector spaces. This allows us to give an elementary string-net description of the linear maps associated to 3-dimensional bordisms. The string-net formalism also simplifies the description of the mapping class group action in the resulting TQFT. We conclude the paper by performing some example calculations from this viewpoint.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08191

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zbMATH Keywords

topological quantum field theoryquantum topologystring-net

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31)

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