Date
Thu, 18 Feb 2016
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
C5
Speaker
Thomas Wasserman
Organisation
Oxford

Topological Quantum Field Theories are functors from a category of bordisms of manifolds to (usually) some categorification of the notion of vector spaces. In this talk we will first discuss why mathematicians are interested in these in general and an overview of the relevant notions. After this we will have a closer look at the example of functors from the bordism category of 1-, 2- and 3-dimensional manifolds equipped with principal G-bundles, for G a finite group, to nice categorifications of vector spaces.

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