Embedded surface invariants via the Broda-Petit construction

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Authors: Ik Jae Lee, D. N. Yetter 

Publication date: 20 March 2023

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.

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)

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