Seminar series
Date
Mon, 13 Feb 2017
Time
15:45 - 16:45
Location
L6
Speaker
Noah Snyder
Organisation
Indiana University

The cobordism hypothesis gives a correspondence between the
framed local topological field theories with values in C and a fully
dualizable objects in C.  Changing framing gives an O(n) action on the
space of local TFTs, and hence by the cobordism hypothesis it gives a
(homotopy coherent) action of O(n) on the space of fully dualizable
objects in C.  One example of this phenomenon is that O(3) acts on the
space of fusion categories.  In fact, O(3) acts on the larger space of
finite tensor categories.  I'll describe this action explicitly and
discuss its relationship to the double dual, Radford's theorem,
pivotal structures, and spherical structures.  This is part of work in
progress joint with Chris Douglas and Chris Schommer-Pries.
 

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