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3-Dimensional TQFTs From Non-Semisimple Modular Categories

Geometric Topology 2022-09-20 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We use modified traces to renormalize Lyubashenko's closed 3-manifold invariants coming from twist non-degenerate finite unimodular ribbon categories. Our construction produces new topological invariants which we upgrade to 2+1-TQFTs under the additional assumption of factorizability. The resulting functors provide monoidal extensions of Lyubashenko's mapping class group representations, as discussed in arXiv:2010.14852. This general framework encompasses important examples of non-semisimple modular categories coming from the representation theory of quasi-Hopf algebras, which were left out of previous non-semisimple TQFT constructions.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02063,
  title  = {3-Dimensional TQFTs From Non-Semisimple Modular Categories},
  author = {Marco De Renzi and Azat M. Gainutdinov and Nathan Geer and Bertrand Patureau-Mirand and Ingo Runkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02063},
  year   = {2022}
}

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49 pages; v3: added pictures and references

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