Formal homotopy quantum field theories. I: Formal maps and crossed C-algebras.

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Authors Timothy Porter, Vladimir Turaev

Publication date 17 February 2010

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512032

zbMATH Keywords

crossed modulescrossed algebrasHomotopy quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Nonabelian homological algebra (category-theoretic aspects) (18G50) Homotopy theory (55P99)

Abstract: Homotopy Quantum Field Theories (HQFTs) were introduced by the second author to extend the ideas and methods of Topological Quantum Field Theories to closed $d$-manifolds endowed with extra structure in the form of homotopy classes of maps into a given `target' space, $B$. For $d=1$, classifications of HQFTs in terms of algebraic structures are known when $B$ is a $K(G,1)$ and also when it is simply connected. Here we study general HQFTs with $d=1$ and target a general 2-type, giving a common generalisation of the classifying algebraic structures for the two cases previously known. The algebraic models for 2-types that we use are crossed modules, $mathcalC$, and we introduce a notion of formal $mathcalC$-map, which extends the usual lattice-type constructions to this setting. This leads to a classification of `formal' 2-dimensional HQFTs with target $mathcalC$, in terms of crossed $mathcalC$-algebras.

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