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Evaluating thin flat surfaces

Quantum Algebra 2021-03-03 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We consider recognizable evaluations for a suitable category of oriented two-dimensional cobordisms with corners between finite unions of intervals. We call such cobordisms thin flat surfaces. An evaluation is given by a power series in two variables. Recognizable evaluations correspond to series that are ratios of a two-variable polynomial by the product of two one-variable polynomials, one for each variable. They are also in a bijection with isomorphism classes of commutative Frobenius algebras on two generators with a nondegenerate trace fixed. The latter algebras of dimension n correspond to points on the dual tautological bundle on the Hilbert scheme of n points on the affine plane, with a certain divisor removed from the bundle. A recognizable evaluation gives rise to a functor from the above cobordism category of thin flat surfaces to the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces. These functors may be non-monoidal in interesting cases. To a recognizable evaluation we also assign an analogue of the Deligne category and of its quotient by the ideal of negligible morphisms.

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@article{arxiv.2009.01384,
  title  = {Evaluating thin flat surfaces},
  author = {Mikhail Khovanov and You Qi and Lev Rozansky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01384},
  year   = {2021}
}

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38 pages, 21 figures