Modular functors from non-semisimple 3d TFTs

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Main Authors: Hofer, Aaron, Runkel, Ingo
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author Hofer, Aaron
Runkel, Ingo
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Runkel, Ingo
contents Given a not necessarily semisimple modular tensor category C, we use the corresponding 3d TFT defined in [arXiv:1912.02063] to explicitly describe a modular functor as a symmetric monoidal 2-functor from a 2-category of oriented bordisms to a 2-category of finite linear categories. This recovers a result by Lyubashenko [arXiv:hep-th/9405168] obtained via generators and relations. Pulling back the modular functor for C to a 2-category of bordisms with orientation reversing involution cancels the gluing anomaly, and further pulling back to the original bordism category along a doubling functor leads to the modular functor for the Drinfeld centre Z(C).
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spellingShingle Modular functors from non-semisimple 3d TFTs
Hofer, Aaron
Runkel, Ingo
Quantum Algebra
High Energy Physics - Theory
Geometric Topology
Given a not necessarily semisimple modular tensor category C, we use the corresponding 3d TFT defined in [arXiv:1912.02063] to explicitly describe a modular functor as a symmetric monoidal 2-functor from a 2-category of oriented bordisms to a 2-category of finite linear categories. This recovers a result by Lyubashenko [arXiv:hep-th/9405168] obtained via generators and relations. Pulling back the modular functor for C to a 2-category of bordisms with orientation reversing involution cancels the gluing anomaly, and further pulling back to the original bordism category along a doubling functor leads to the modular functor for the Drinfeld centre Z(C).
title Modular functors from non-semisimple 3d TFTs
topic Quantum Algebra
High Energy Physics - Theory
Geometric Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18038