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Abelian TQFTS and Schr\"odinger local systems

Geometric Topology 2024-09-20 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We construct an action of 3-cobordisms on the finite dimensional Schr\"odinger representations of the Heisenberg group by Lagrangian correspondences. In addition, we review the construction of the abelian Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) associated with a qq-deformation of U(1)U(1) for any root of unity qq. We prove that for3-cobor\-disms compatible with Lagrangian correspondences, there is a normalization of the associated Schr\"odinger bimodule action that reproduces the abelian TQFT. The full abelian TQFT provides a projective representation of the mapping class group Mod(Σ)\mathrm{Mod}(\Sigma) on the Schr\"odinger representation,which is linearizable at odd root of 1. Motivated by homology of surface configurations with Schr\"odinger representation as local coefficients, we define another projective action of Mod(Σ)\mathrm{Mod}(\Sigma) on Schr\"odinger representations. We show that the latter is not linearizable by identifying the associated 2-cocycle.

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@article{arxiv.2306.10725,
  title  = {Abelian TQFTS and Schr\"odinger local systems},
  author = {Aleksei Andreev and Anna Beliakova and Christian Blanchet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10725},
  year   = {2024}
}

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25 pages, 3 figures