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Main Authors: Carqueville, Nils, Meir, Ehud, Szegedy, Lorant
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08608
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author Carqueville, Nils
Meir, Ehud
Szegedy, Lorant
author_facet Carqueville, Nils
Meir, Ehud
Szegedy, Lorant
contents For a positive integer r, an r-spin topological quantum field theory is a 2-dimensional TQFT with tangential structure given by the r-fold cover of SO_2 . In particular, such a TQFT assigns a scalar invariant to every closed r-spin surface Sigma. Given a sequence of scalars indexed by the set of diffeomorphism classes of all such Sigma, we construct a symmetric monoidal category C and a C-valued r-spin TQFT which reproduces the given sequence. We also determine when such a sequence arises from a TQFT valued in an abelian category with finite-dimensional Hom spaces. In particular, we construct TQFTs with values in super vector spaces that can distinguish all diffeomorphism classes of r-spin surfaces, and we show that the associated algebras are necessarily non-semisimple.
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spellingShingle Invariants of r-spin TQFTs and non-semisimplicity
Carqueville, Nils
Meir, Ehud
Szegedy, Lorant
Quantum Algebra
Mathematical Physics
57K16, 18M05
For a positive integer r, an r-spin topological quantum field theory is a 2-dimensional TQFT with tangential structure given by the r-fold cover of SO_2 . In particular, such a TQFT assigns a scalar invariant to every closed r-spin surface Sigma. Given a sequence of scalars indexed by the set of diffeomorphism classes of all such Sigma, we construct a symmetric monoidal category C and a C-valued r-spin TQFT which reproduces the given sequence. We also determine when such a sequence arises from a TQFT valued in an abelian category with finite-dimensional Hom spaces. In particular, we construct TQFTs with values in super vector spaces that can distinguish all diffeomorphism classes of r-spin surfaces, and we show that the associated algebras are necessarily non-semisimple.
title Invariants of r-spin TQFTs and non-semisimplicity
topic Quantum Algebra
Mathematical Physics
57K16, 18M05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08608