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We describe a method to implement finite group global and gauged $q$-form symmetries into the axiomatic structure of $d$-dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) in terms of bordisms decorated by cohomology classes. Namely, on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Manuel Furlan , Pavel Putrov

We study the path integral quantization of the topological 3BF theory, whose gauge symmetry is described by a 3-group. This theory is relevant for the quantization of general relativity coupled to Standard Model of elementary particles. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Tijana Radenkovic , Marko Vojinovic

We study conformal field theories (CFTs) and their classifications from a modern perspective based on the abstract algebraic formalism of symmetries or conserved charges, known as symmetry topological field theories (SymTFTs). By studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Yoshiki Fukusumi , Taishi Kawamoto

Some mathematical questions relating to Coset Conformal Field Theories (CFT) are considered in the framework of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory as developed previously by us. We consider the issue of fixed point resolution in the diagonal…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xu

Although quantum circuits have been ubiquitous for decades in quantum computing, the first complete equational theory for quantum circuits has only recently been introduced. Completeness guarantees that any true equation on quantum circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Alexandre Clément , Noé Delorme , Simon Perdrix , Renaud Vilmart

We introduce the notion of $n$-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT) with defects as a symmetric monoidal functor on decorated stratified bordisms of dimension $n$. The familiar closed or open-closed TQFTs are special cases of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Nils Carqueville , Ingo Runkel , Gregor Schaumann

Modular functors, i.e. consistent systems of projective representations of mapping class groups of surfaces, have been constructed for non-semisimple modular categories already decades ago. Concepts from homological algebra have not been…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Christoph Schweigert , Lukas Woike

In this paper we show how one can extend Turaev-Viro invariants, defined for an arbitrary spherical fusion category $C$, to 3-manifolds with corners. We demonstrate that this gives an extended TQFT which conjecturally coincides with the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Alexander Kirillov , Benjamin Balsam

In general, quantum field theories (QFT) require regularizations and infinite renormalizations due to ultraviolet divergences in their loop calculations. Furthermore, perturbation series in theories like QED are not convergent series, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Jack Ng , H. van Dam

In the present text we give a geometric interpretation of quasi-modular forms using moduli of elliptic curves with marked elements in their de Rham cohomologies. In this way differential equations of modular and quasi-modular forms are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Hossein Movasati

We define some new invariants for 3-manifolds using the space of taut codim-1 foliations along with various techniques from noncommutative geometry. These invariants originate from our attempt to generalise Topological Quantum Field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Ioannis P. Zois

We establish a relation between fully extended $2$-dimensional TQFTs and recognisable weighted formal languages, rational biprefix codes and lattice TFTs. We show the equivalence of $2D$ closed TFTs and rational exchangeable series and we…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Roland M. Friedrich

The aim of this note is to derive some invariants at infinity for open 3-manifolds in the framework of Topological Quantum Field Theories. These invariants may be used to test if an open manifold is simply connected at infinity as we done…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Louis Funar

We introduce an unrolled quantization $U_q^E(\mathfrak{gl}(1 \vert 1))$ of the complex Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{gl}(1 \vert 1)$ and use its categories of weight modules to construct and study new three dimensional non-semisimple…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Nathan Geer , Matthew B. Young

We use F-theory to classify possibly all six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs). This involves a two step process: We first classify all possible tensor branches allowed in F-theory (which correspond to allowed collections of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Tom Rudelius , Cumrun Vafa

We use tools from non-standard analysis to formulate the building blocks of quantum field theory within the framework of categorical quantum mechanics. Building upon previous work, we construct an object of *Hilb having quantum fields as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Stefano Gogioso , Fabrizio Genovese

In previous work, we proposed a general framework of positive topological field theories (TFTs) based on Eilenberg's notion of summation completeness for semirings. In the present paper, we apply this framework in constructing explicitly a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Markus Banagl

We introduce and study a new 3d Topological Field Theory which can be associated to any compact real manifold X. This TFT is analogous to the 2d A-model and reduces to it upon compactification on an interval with suitable boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-24 Anton Kapustin , Ketan Vyas

Modular categories are a well-known source of quantum 3-manifold invariants. In this paper we study structures on modular categories which allow to define refinements of quantum 3-manifold invariants involving cohomology classes or…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Anna Beliakova , Christian Blanchet , Eva Contreras

In this paper, we endow the family of all closed genus $g \ge 1$ surfaces with a structure of a (co)cyclic object in the category of 3-dimensional cobordisms. As a corollary, any $3$-dimensional TQFT induces a (co)cyclic module, which we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Ivan Bartulović