String-net models for nonspherical pivotal fusion categories

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500352zbMATH Open1445.18013arXiv1907.12532MaRDI QIDQ5118866FDOQ5118866

Authors: Ingo Runkel 

Publication date: 27 August 2020

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

Abstract: A string-net model associates a vector space to a surface in terms of graphs decorated by objects and morphisms of a pivotal fusion category modulo local relations. String-net models are usually considered for spherical fusion categories, and in this case the vector spaces agree with the state spaces of the corresponding Turaev-Viro topological quantum field theory. In the present work some effects of dropping the sphericality condition are investigated. In one example of non-spherical pivotal fusion categories, the string-net space counts the number of r-spin structures on a surface and carries an isomorphic representation of the mapping class group. Another example concerns the string-net space of a sphere with one marked point labelled by a simple object Z of the Drinfeld centre. This space is found to be non-zero iff Z is isomorphic to a non-unit simple object determined by the non-spherical pivotal structure. The last example mirrors the effect of deforming the stress tensor of a two-dimensional conformal field theory, such as in the topological twist of a supersymmetric theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12532

Recommendations

• CFT correlators for Cardy bulk fields via string-net models
• String-net construction of RCFT correlators
• Extended TQFTs via generators and relations I: The extended toric code
• Cardy algebras, sewing constraints and string-nets
• From string nets to nonabelions

zbMATH Keywords

topological phases of mattersurface mapping class groups\(r\)-spin structurespivotal fusion categoriesstring net models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Fusion categories, modular tensor categories, modular functors (18M20) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Cites Work

• Conformal field theory
• From subfactors to categories and topology. II: The quantum double of tensor categories and subfactors
• From subfactors to categories and topology. I: Frobenius algebras in and Morita equivalence of tensor categories
• On fusion categories.
• On Frobenius algebras in rigid monoidal categories
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Tensor Categories
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Shifted vertex operator algebras
• Rigidity and defect actions in Landau-Ginzburg models
• On braided fusion categories. I
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On 3-dimensional homotopy quantum field theory. I.
• Invariants of piecewise-linear 3-manifolds
• The balanced tensor product of module categories
• Vertex algebras and algebraic curves
• Quantum double of Hopf monads and categorical centers
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Some Finite Quotients of the Mapping Class Group of a Surface
• Spherical categories
• On piecewise linear cell decompositions
• Blob homology
• TFT Construction of RCFT correlators. V: Proof of modular invariance and factorisation
• On Unimodular Finite Tensor Categories
• Consistent systems of correlators in non-semisimple conformal field theory
• Microscopic description of 2D topological phases, duality, and 3D state sums
• Quantum computation with Turaev-Viro codes
• State sum construction of two-dimensional topological quantum field theories on spin surfaces
• Monoidal categories and topological field theory
• DECOMPOSING THE TUBE CATEGORY

Cited In (4)

• Factorization homology and 4D TQFT
• From string nets to nonabelions
• The distinguished invertible object as ribbon dualizing object in the Drinfeld center
• Twisted Drinfeld centers and framed string-nets

This page was built for publication: String-net models for nonspherical pivotal fusion categories

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5118866)