2D HQFTs and Frobenius $(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{V})$-categories
Abstract
Homotopy Quantum Field Theories as variants of Topological Quantum Field Theories are described by functors from some cobordism category, enriched with homotopical data, to a symmetric monoidal category $\mathcal{V}$. A new notion of HQFTs is introduced using target pairs of spaces $(X,Y)$ acounting for basepoints being sent to points in $Y$. Such $(X,Y)$-HQFTs are classified in dimension 1 by dualizable representations of $\mathcal{G}:=\Pi_1(X,Y)$, the relative fundamental groupoid. For dimension 2, the notion of crossed loop Frobenius $(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{V})$-categories is introduced, generalizing crossed Frobenius $G$-algebras, where $G$ is only a group. After stating generalities of these multi-object generalizations, a classification theorem of 2-dimensional $(X,Y)$-HQFTs via crossed loop Frobenius $(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{V})$-categories is proven.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2025
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2501.10113
- Bibcode:
- 2025arXiv250110113G
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Quantum Algebra
- E-Print:
- 31 pages