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Fully extended $\boldsymbol{r}$-spin TQFTs

Quantum Algebra 2023-11-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Algebraic Topology Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

We prove the rr-spin cobordism hypothesis in the setting of (weak) 2-categories for every positive integer rr: The 2-groupoid of 2-dimensional fully extended rr-spin TQFTs with given target is equivalent to the homotopy fixed points of an induced Spin2r\textrm{Spin}_2^r-action. In particular, such TQFTs are classified by fully dualisable objects together with a trivialisation of the rr-th power of their Serre automorphisms. For r=1r=1 we recover the oriented case (on which our proof builds), while ordinary spin structures correspond to r=2r=2. To construct examples, we explicitly describe Spin2r\textrm{Spin}_2^r-homotopy fixed points in the equivariant completion of any symmetric monoidal 2-category. We also show that every object in a 2-category of Landau--Ginzburg models gives rise to fully extended spin TQFTs, and that half of these do not factor through the oriented bordism 2-category.

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@article{arxiv.2107.02046,
  title  = {Fully extended $\boldsymbol{r}$-spin TQFTs},
  author = {Nils Carqueville and Lóránt Szegedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02046},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

64 pages; v2: minor changes, Proposition 3.2 assumes a pivotal structure

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