One-dimensional topological theories with defects: the linear case

DOI10.1090/CONM/791/15874MaRDI QIDQ6201563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mee Seong Im, Mikhail Khovanov

Publication date 21 February 2024

Published in Algebraic and Topological Aspects of Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00371

zbMATH Keywords

topological theoryuniversal constructionBrauer categoriessymmetric Frobenius algebrastopological quantum field theory (TQFT)defects in TQFTrational noncommutative power series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Valuations, completions, formal power series and related constructions (associative rings and algebras) (16W60) Monoidal categories, symmetric monoidal categories (18M05) String diagrams and graphical calculi (18M30) Finite-type and quantum invariants, topological quantum field theories (TQFT) (57K16)

Abstract: The paper studies the Karoubi envelope of a one-dimensional topological theory with defects and inner endpoints, defined over a field. It turns out that the Karoubi envelope is determined by a symmetric Frobenius algebra K associated to the theory. The Karoubi envelope is then equivalent to the quotient of the Frobenius-Brauer category of K modulo the ideal of negligible morphisms. Symmetric Frobenius algebras, such as K, describe two-dimensional TQFTs for the category of thin flat surfaces, and elements of the algebra can be turned into defects on the side boundaries of these surfaces. We also explain how to couple K to the universal construction restricted to closed surfaces to define a topological theory of open-closed two-dimensional cobordisms which is usually not an open-closed 2D TQFT.

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