State sum construction of two-dimensional topological quantum field theories on spin surfaces

DOI10.1142/S0218216515500285zbMATH Open1320.57035arXiv1402.2839OpenAlexW2963766793MaRDI QIDQ5262987FDOQ5262987

Ingo Runkel, Sebastian Novak

Publication date: 10 July 2015

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

Abstract: We provide a combinatorial model for spin surfaces. Given a triangulation of an oriented surface, a spin structure is encoded by assigning to each triangle a preferred edge, and to each edge an orientation and a sign, subject to certain admissibility conditions. The behaviour of this data under Pachner moves is then used to define a state sum topological field theory on spin surfaces. The algebraic data is a Delta-separable Frobenius algebra whose Nakayama automorphism is an involution. We find that a simple extra condition on the algebra guarantees that the amplitude is zero unless the combinatorial data satisfies the admissibility condition required for the reconstruction of the spin structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2839

zbMATH Keywords

Frobenius algebratopological field theorydefect linescombinatorial spin structurespin surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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