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N on-Semisimple Topological Quantum Field Theories for 3-Manifolds with Corners

By Thomas Kerler , Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2001
ISBN
9783540424161, 3-540-42416-4
Open Library ID
OL12774880M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3480801 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Edition
1
Pages
384\384
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This book presents the (to date) most general approach to combinatorial constructions of topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) in three dimensions. The authors describe extended TQFTs as double functors between two naturally defined double categories: one of topological nature, made of 3-manifolds with corners, the other of algebraic nature, made of linear categories, functors, vector spaces and maps. Atiyah's conventional notion of TQFTs as well as the notion of modular functor from axiomatic conformal field theory are unified in this concept. A large class of such extended modular catergory is constructed, assigning a double functor to every abelian modular category, which does not have to be semisimple.

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