Higher categories and topological quantum field theories
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Mathematics
- Degree Supervisor:
- Zhenghan Wang
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2016
- Issued Date:
- 2016
- Topics:
- Mathematics
- Keywords:
- Topological quantum field theory,
Invariants, and
Higher category - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
- Description:
We give a construction of Turaev-Viro type (3+1)-TQFT out of a G-crossed braided spherical fusion category for G a finite group. The resulting invariant of 4-manifolds generalizes several known invariants in literature such as the Crane-Yetter invariant and Yetter's invariant from homotopy 2-types. Some concrete examples will be provided to show the calculations. If the category is concentrated only at the sector indexed by the trivial group element, a co-cycle in H 4(G,U(1)) can be introduced to produce another invariant, which reduces to the twisted Dijkgraaf-Witten theory in a special case. It can be shown that with a G-crossed braided spherical fusion category, one can construct a monoidal 2-category with certain extra structure, but these structures do not satisfy all the axioms of a spherical 2-category given by M. Mackaay. Although not proven, it is believed that our invariant is strictly different from other known invariants. It remains to see if the invariant has the power to detect any smooth structures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (105 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10159796
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3s75gdd
- ISBN:
- 9781369147247
- Catalog System Number:
- 990046968220203776
- Copyright:
- Xingshan Cui, 2016
- Rights:
- In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Xingshan Cui
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