Defining extended TQFTs via handle attachments

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Auteur principal: Haïoun, Benjamin
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author Haïoun, Benjamin
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contents We give a finite presentation of the cobordism symmetric monoidal bicategory of (smooth, oriented) closed manifolds, cobordisms and cobordisms with corners as an extension of the bicategory of closed manifolds, cobordisms and diffeomorphisms. The generators are the standard handle attachments, and the relations are handle cancellations and invariance under reversing the orientation of the attaching spheres. In other words, given a categorified TQFT and 2-morphisms associated to the standard handles satisfying our relations, we construct a once extended TQFT.
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spellingShingle Defining extended TQFTs via handle attachments
Haïoun, Benjamin
Geometric Topology
Category Theory
Quantum Algebra
We give a finite presentation of the cobordism symmetric monoidal bicategory of (smooth, oriented) closed manifolds, cobordisms and cobordisms with corners as an extension of the bicategory of closed manifolds, cobordisms and diffeomorphisms. The generators are the standard handle attachments, and the relations are handle cancellations and invariance under reversing the orientation of the attaching spheres. In other words, given a categorified TQFT and 2-morphisms associated to the standard handles satisfying our relations, we construct a once extended TQFT.
title Defining extended TQFTs via handle attachments
topic Geometric Topology
Category Theory
Quantum Algebra
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14649