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Main Authors: Marx, Sophia E, Mehta, Rajan Amit
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24887
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author Marx, Sophia E
Mehta, Rajan Amit
author_facet Marx, Sophia E
Mehta, Rajan Amit
contents We consider commutative Frobenius pseudomonoids in the bicategory of spans, and we show that they are in correspondence with 2-Segal cosymmetric sets. Such a structure can be interpreted as a coherent 2-dimensional topological quantum field theory taking values in the bicategory of spans. We also describe a construction that produces a 2-Segal cosymmetric set from any partial monoid equipped with a distinguished element.
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spellingShingle Coherent span-valued 2D TQFTs
Marx, Sophia E
Mehta, Rajan Amit
Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
18B10, 18B40, 18C40, 18N50, 57R56
We consider commutative Frobenius pseudomonoids in the bicategory of spans, and we show that they are in correspondence with 2-Segal cosymmetric sets. Such a structure can be interpreted as a coherent 2-dimensional topological quantum field theory taking values in the bicategory of spans. We also describe a construction that produces a 2-Segal cosymmetric set from any partial monoid equipped with a distinguished element.
title Coherent span-valued 2D TQFTs
topic Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
18B10, 18B40, 18C40, 18N50, 57R56
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24887