Seminar series
Date
Mon, 25 Nov 2024
15:30
Location
L5
Speaker
Paul Großkopf
Organisation
(Oxford University)

Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) have been studied as mathematical toy models for quantum field theories in physics and are described by a functor out of some bordism category. In dimension 2, TQFTs are fully classified by Frobenius algebras. Homotopy Quantum Field Theories (HQFTs), introduced by Turaev, consider additional homotopy data to some target space X on the bordism categories. For homotopy 1-types Turaev also gives a classification via crossed G-Frobenius algebras, where G denotes the fundamental group of X.
In this talk we will introduce a multi-object generalization of Frobenius algebras called Frobenius categories and give a version of this classification theorem involving the fundamental groupoid. Further, we will give a classification theorem for HQFTs with target homotopy 2-types by considering crossed modules (joint work with Alexis Virelizier).
 

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