Invariants and TQFT's for cut cellular surfaces from finite 2-groups

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Authors Diogo P. L. Bragança, Roger Picken

Publication date 12 November 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02390

zbMATH Keywords

2-groupcommuting fractioncrossed modulecut cellular surfacefinite groupTQFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PL-topology (57Q99) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: In this brief sequel to a previous article, we recall the notion of a cut cellular surface (CCS), being a surface with boundary, which is cut in a specified way to be represented in the plane, and is composed of 0-, 1- and 2-cells. We obtain invariants of CCS's under Pachner-like moves on the cellular structure, by counting colourings of the 1- and 2-cells with elements of a finite 2-group, subject to a "fake flatness" condition for each 2-cell. These invariants, which extend Yetter's invariants to this class of surfaces, are also described in a TQFT setting. A result from the previous article concerning the commuting fraction of a group is generalized to the 2-group context.

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