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Diagrammatic State Sums for 2D Pin-Minus TQFTs

Quantum Algebra 2020-03-05 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The two dimensional state sum models of Barrett and Tavares are extended to unoriented spacetimes. The input to the construction is an algebraic structure dubbed half twist algebras, a class of examples of which is real separable superalgebras with a continuous parameter. The construction generates pin-minus TQFTs, including the root invertible theory with partition function the Arf-Brown-Kervaire invariant. Decomposability, the stacking law, and Morita invariance of the construction are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1811.12654,
  title  = {Diagrammatic State Sums for 2D Pin-Minus TQFTs},
  author = {Alex Turzillo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.12654},
  year   = {2020}
}