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Topological quantum field theory.

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Reduction of the $0$-handle data in Lurie's classification of TFT

A vital part of Jacob Lurie's classification of fully extended topological field theories [1], very roughly, says that any representation of the n-Cobordism category $Z: {\rm Cob}_{{n}} \to C$ depends …
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Knot invariants in WZW CFT via Holographic Principle

In the physics literature the Holographic Principle relates theories in the bulk and the theories in the asymptotic boundary. While the bulk theory is the 3D Chern-Simons theory, the corresponding bou …
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Non-extendable 3D TQFTs

Non-extendable 2D TQFTs correspond to finite dimensional Frobenius algebras [1]. How about 3D TQFTs? While the answer is clear for the extended ones (e.g. (3,2,1) TQFTs almost correspond to modular te …
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DW, state sum models, and fully extended TQFTs

I am interested in state sum models and their relations with some other of TQFTs, especially the fully extended TQFTs and the Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFTs (generalized, in the sense that finite-group-bundle …
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Classification of $\operatorname{Rep}D(H)$

Question Let $H$ be a finite dimensional complex Hopf algebra and $D(H)$ its quantum double. Can we classify the simple objects in $\operatorname{Rep}D(H)$ if the representations of $H$ are well-unde …
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Group representation with algebra structure

I haven't seen this question in standard textbooks, so I decide to give it a try here. It might relate to deeper structures of certain TQFTs, but I'm not sure. Let $G$ be a finite group. Its finite-di …
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What do physicists mean by a topological quantum gravity theory

This is a jargon-like question. The fact that this is posted here rather in a physics forum indicates two things I know too little physics. An explanation with more mathematics flavors will be appr …
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1-dimensional pure gauge theory

I am learning TQFT from compact Lie groups by Freed, Hopkins, Lurie, and Teleman: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0731 , and got stuck very hard even in the first section ($n = 1$), which was "trivial but …