Embedded surface invariants via the Broda-Petit construction

MaRDI QIDQ6430239FDO

Authors Ik Jae Lee, D. N. Yetter

Publication date 20 March 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45) Invariants of 4-manifolds (including Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants) (57K41)

Abstract: We recall Petit's construction of "dichromatic" invariants of 4-manifolds computed from Kirby diagrams using a nested pair of ribbon fusion categories $mathcalBsubsetmathcalC$ as initial data. Along the way we prove a lemma that fits the use of formal linear combinations of simple objects with quantum dimensions a coefficients as in the constructions of Reshetikhin-Turaev, Broda, and Petit more firmly in the functorial framework favored by the authors. We then show that Hughes et. al's banded-link presentations of surfaces embedded in 4-manifolds provide a means whereby Frobenius algebra in $mathcalB$ together with a suitable module over it lying in $mathcalC$, give rise to an invariant of a surface-4-manifold pair. We provide a class of examples of suitable initial data and compute sufficient examples to show the invariant is sensitive to both genus and knotting.

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