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B-twisted Gaiotto-Witten theory and topological quantum field theory

Representation Theory 2024-01-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We develop representation theoretic techniques to construct three dimensional non-semisimple topological quantum field theories which model homologically truncated topological B-twists of abelian Gaiotto-Witten theory with linear matter. Our constructions are based on relative modular structures on the category of weight modules over an unrolled quantization of a Lie superalgebra. The Lie superalgebra, originally defined by Gaiotto and Witten, is associated to a complex symplectic representation of a metric abelian Lie algebra. The physical theories we model admit alternative realizations as Chern-Simons-Rozansky-Witten theories and supergroup Chern-Simons theories and include as particular examples global forms of gl(11)\mathfrak{gl}(1 \vert 1)-Chern-Simons theory and toral Chern-Simons theory. Fundamental to our approach is the systematic incorporation of non-genuine line operators which source flat connections for the topological flavour symmetry of the theory.

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@article{arxiv.2401.16192,
  title  = {B-twisted Gaiotto-Witten theory and topological quantum field theory},
  author = {Niklas Garner and Nathan Geer and Matthew B. Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.16192},
  year   = {2024}
}

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46 pages