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Truncated affine Rozansky--Witten models as extended TQFTs

Mathematical Physics 2025-04-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We construct extended TQFTs associated to Rozansky--Witten models with target manifolds TCnT^*\mathbb{C}^n. The starting point of the construction is the 3-category whose objects are such Rozansky--Witten models, and whose morphisms are defects of all codimensions. By truncation, we obtain a (non-semisimple) 2-category C\mathcal{C} of bulk theories, surface defects, and isomorphism classes of line defects. Through a systematic application of the cobordism hypothesis we construct a unique extended oriented 2-dimensional TQFT valued in C\mathcal{C} for every affine Rozansky--Witten model. By evaluating this TQFT on closed surfaces we obtain the infinite-dimensional state spaces (graded by flavour and R-charges) of the initial 3-dimensional theory. Furthermore, we explicitly compute the commutative Frobenius algebras that classify the restrictions of the extended theories to circles and bordisms between them.

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@article{arxiv.2201.03284,
  title  = {Truncated affine Rozansky--Witten models as extended TQFTs},
  author = {Ilka Brunner and Nils Carqueville and Daniel Roggenkamp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.03284},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

50 pages; v2: some typos corrected