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Unit inclusion in a non-semisimple braided tensor category and non-compact relative TQFTs

Quantum Algebra 2025-07-02 v2 Category Theory Geometric Topology

Abstract

The inclusion of the unit in a braided tensor category V\mathcal{V} induces a 1-morphism in the Morita 4-category of braided tensor categories BrTensBrTens. We give criteria for the dualizability of this morphism. When V\mathcal{V} is a semisimple (resp. non-semisimple) modular category, we show that the unit inclusion induces under the Cobordism Hypothesis a (resp. non-compact) relative 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory. Following Jordan-Safronov, we conjecture that these relative field theories together with their bulk theories recover Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (resp. De Renzi-Gainutdinov-Geer-Patureau-Mirand-Runkel) theories, in a fully extended setting. In particular, we argue that these theories can be obtained by the Cobordism Hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.2304.12167,
  title  = {Unit inclusion in a non-semisimple braided tensor category and non-compact relative TQFTs},
  author = {Benjamin Haïoun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12167},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Significant changes from the first version including conjectures for SO(4) and SO(5) homotopy fixed point structures and a more appropriate statement of the cobordism hypothesis for twisted field theories. 35 pages. To appear in Geometry&Topology