Bicategories for TQFTs with defects with structure

DOI10.1142/S0218216522500055MaRDI QIDQ5072606zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ik Jae Lee, D. N. Yetter

Publication date 29 April 2022

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06538

zbMATH Keywords

bicategorystate-sumTQFTtriangulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-categories, bicategories, double categories (18N10) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31) PL-topology (57Q99) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: We provide a description of adequate categorical data to give a Turaev-Viro type state-sum construct of invariants of 3-manifolds with a system of defects, generalizing the Dijkgraaf-Witten type invariants of our earlier work. We term the defects in our construction defects-with-structure because algebraic data associated to them is in general richer than a module category over the spherical fusion category from which the theory is constructed when no defect is present.

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