Spin from defects in two-dimensional quantum field theory

DOI10.1063/1.5129435zbMATH Open1452.81158arXiv1506.07547OpenAlexW3036148963MaRDI QIDQ5136174FDOQ5136174

Authors: Sebastian Novak, Ingo Runkel 

Publication date: 25 November 2020

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We build two-dimensional quantum field theories on spin surfaces starting from theories on oriented surfaces with networks of topological defect lines and junctions. The construction uses a combinatorial description of the spin structure in terms of a triangulation equipped with extra data. The amplitude for the spin surfaces is defined to be the amplitude for the underlying oriented surface together with a defect network dual to the triangulation. Independence of the triangulation and of the other choices follows if the line defect and junctions are obtained from a Delta-separable Frobenius algebra with involutive Nakayama automorphism in the monoidal category of topological defects. For rational conformal field theory we can give a more explicit description of the defect category, and we work out two examples related to free fermions in detail: the Ising model and the so(n) WZW model at level 1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07547

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Characteristic (p) methods (Frobenius endomorphism) and reduction to characteristic (p); tight closure (13A35) Triangulation and topological properties of semi-analytic andsubanalytic sets, and related questions (32B25) Monoidal categories, symmetric monoidal categories (18M05)

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