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

DOI10.1142/S0219199720500546MaRDI QIDQ5002183zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruce Bartlett, Gerrit Goosen

Publication date 27 July 2021

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

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

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)

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.

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