Seminar series
          
      Date
              Mon, 16 May 2022
      
      
          Time
        12:45 - 
        13:45
          Location
              L1 
          Speaker
              Rajath RADHAKRISHNAN
          Organisation
              QMUL
          The line operators in a 2+1D TQFT form an algebraic structure called a modular tensor category (MTC). There is a natural action of a Galois group on MTCs which maps a given TQFT to other 'Galois conjugate' TQFTs. I will describe this Galois action and give several examples of Galois conjugate TQFTs. Galois action on a unitary TQFT can result in a non-unitary TQFT. I will derive a sufficient condition under which unitarity is preserved. Finally, I will describe the invariance of 0-form and 1-form symmetries of TQFTs under Galois action.
 
    