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We introduce continuous Frobenius categories. These are topological categories which are constructed using representations of the circle over a discrete valuation ring. We show that they are Krull-Schmidt with one indecomposable object for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Kiyoshi Igusa , Gordana Todorov

We consider commutative Frobenius pseudomonoids in the bicategory of spans, and we show that they are in correspondence with 2-Segal cosymmetric sets. Such a structure can be interpreted as a coherent 2-dimensional topological quantum field…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Sophia E Marx , Rajan Amit Mehta

We introduce and study the spherical dimension, a natural topological relaxation of the VC dimension that unifies several results in learning theory where topology plays a key role in the proofs. The spherical dimension is defined by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Bogdan Chornomaz , Shay Moran , Tom Waknine

We construct Frobenius structures on the $\mathbb{C}^{\times}$-bundle of the complement of a toric arrangement associated with a root system, by making use of a one-parameter family of torsion free and flat connections on it. This gives…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Dali Shen

The sphere formula states that in an arbitrary finite abstract simplicial complex, the sum of the Euler characteristic of unit spheres centered at even-dimensional simplices is equal to the sum of the Euler characteristic of unit spheres…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Oliver Knill

A Frobenius manifold is a manifold with a flat metric and a Frobenius algebra structure on tangent spaces at points of the manifold such that the structure constants of multiplication are given by third derivatives of a potential function…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Alexander Varchenko

Modeling deformations of a real object is an important task in computer vision, biomedical engineering and biomechanics. In this paper, we focus on a situation where a three-dimensional object is rotationally deformed about a fixed axis,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Sungkyu Jung

An algebraic system is proposed that represent surface cobordisms in thickened surfaces. Module and comodule structures over Frobenius algebras are used for representing essential curves. The proposed structure gives a unified algebraic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-06 J. Scott Carter , Masahico Saito

Topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) are symmetric monoidal functors out of cobordism categories. In dimension two, oriented TQFTs are famously classified by commutative Frobenius algebras. In the unoriented setting, the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Leon J. Goertz , Paul Wedrich

We show that if an open set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ can be fibered by unit $n$-spheres, then $d \geq 2n+1$, and if $d = 2n+1$, then the spheres must be pairwise linked, and $n \in \left\{ 0, 1, 3, 7 \right\}$. For these values of $n$, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Daniel Asimov , Florian Frick , Michael Harrison , Wesley Pegden

We give a complete classification of topological field theories with reflection structure and spin-statistics in one and two spacetime dimensions. Our answers can be naturally expressed in terms of an internal fermionic symmetry group $G$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Lukas Müller , Luuk Stehouwer

We give a complete classification of Riemannian and Lorentzian surfaces of arbitrary codimension in a pseudo-sphere whose pseudo-spherical Gauss maps are of 1-type or, in particular, harmonic. In some cases a concrete global classification…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Burcu Bektaş , Joeri Van der Veken , Luc Vrancken

We give two presentations for bordisms of $S^2$ in the 3-dimensional oriented bordism category $\operatorname{Cob}(3) $, encoding the algebraic structures on $S^2$. After passing through topological field theories, we define two kinds of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Chris Li

We show that the C*-algebra of a quantum sphere $C(S_{q}^{2n+1})$ can be realized as a groupoid C*-algebra of a groupoid which is explicitly identified and is independent of the parameter $q$.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Albert Jeu-Liang Sheu

We explicitly show that symmetric Frobenius structures on a finite-dimensional, semi-simple algebra stand in bijection to homotopy fixed points of the trivial SO(2)-action on the bicategory of finite-dimensional, semi-simple algebras,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Jan Hesse , Christoph Schweigert , Alessandro Valentino

Two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) can be defined through its correlation functions. These must satisfy certain consistency conditions which arise from the cutting of world sheets along circles or intervals. The construction of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Ingo Runkel , Jens Fjelstad , Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

We discuss when the incidence coalgebra of a locally finite preordered set is right co-Frobenius. As a consequence, we obtain that a structural matrix algebra over a field $k$ is Frobenius if and only if it consists, up to a permutation of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Sorin Dascalescu , Miodrag C. Iovanov , Sorina Predut

A classical result in quantum topology is that oriented 2-dimensional topological quantum field theories (2-TQFTs) are fully classified by commutative Frobenius algebras. In 2006, Turaev and Turner introduced additional structure on…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Agustina Czenky , Jacob Kesten , Abiel Quinonez , Chelsea Walton

The category of Frobenius Lie algebras is stable under deformation, and here we examine explicit infinitesimal deformations of four and six dimensional Frobenius Lie algebras with the goal of understanding if the spectrum of a Frobenius Lie…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Vincent E. Coll, , Nicholas Mayers , Nicholas Russoniello

We report on some recent work on deformation of spaces, notably deformation of spheres, describing two classes of examples. The first class of examples consists of noncommutative manifolds associated with the so called $\theta$-deformations…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Giovanni Landi