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We construct and study a new family of TQFTs based on nilpotent highest weight representations of quantum sl(2) at a root of unity indexed by generic complex numbers. This extends to cobordisms the non-semi-simple invariants defined in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Christian Blanchet , Francesco Costantino , Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand

We show that a vector space valued TQFT constructed in work of De Renzi et al. [DGGPR23] extends naturally to a topological field theory which takes values in the symmetric monoidal category of linear cochains. Specifically, we consider a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Agustina Czenky , Cris Negron

We discuss a variety of codimension-one, non-invertible topological defects in general 3+1d QFTs with a discrete one-form global symmetry. These include condensation defects from higher gauging of the one-form symmetries on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Yichul Choi , Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin , Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao

Ideas of Rozansky and Witten, as developed by Kapranov, show that a complex symplectic manifold X gives rise to Vassiliev weight systems. In this paper we study these weight systems by using D(X), the derived category of coherent sheaves on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Justin Roberts , Simon Willerton

In [arXiv:1912.02063], we constructed 3-dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) using not necessarily semisimple modular categories. Here, we study projective representations of mapping class groups of surfaces defined by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco De Renzi , Azat M. Gainutdinov , Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand , Ingo Runkel

We construct 3-dimensional once-Extended Topological Quantum Field Theories (ETQFTs for short) out of (possibly non-semisimple) modular categories, and we explicitly identify linear categories and functors in their image. The circle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco De Renzi

Using the AKSZ formalism, we construct the Batalin-Vilkovisky master action for the Rozansky-Witten model, which can be defined for any complex manifold with a closed (2,0)-form. We also construct the holomorphic version of Rozansky-Witten…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-04 Jian Qiu , Maxim Zabzine

Rozansky and Witten proposed in 1996 a family of new three-dimensional topological quantum field theories, indexed by compact (or asymptotically flat) hyperkaehler manifolds. As a byproduct they proved that hyperkaehler manifolds also give…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Justin Roberts

We derive a canonical form for 2-group gauge theory in 3+1D which shows they are either equivalent to Dijkgraaf-Witten theory or to the so-called "EF1" topological order of Lan-Wen. According to that classification, recently argued from a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Ryan Thorngren

We construct three classes of generalised orbifolds of Reshetikhin-Turaev theory for a modular tensor category $\mathcal{C}$, using the language of defect TQFT from [arXiv:1705.06085]: (i) spherical fusion categories give orbifolds for the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Nils Carqueville , Ingo Runkel , Gregor Schaumann

Topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a powerful tool to describe homologies, which normally involve complexes and a variety of maps/morphisms, what makes a functional integration approach with a sum over a single kind of maps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Dmitry Galakhov , Elena Lanina , Alexei Morozov

We analyze topological boundary conditions and topological surface defects in three-dimensional topological field theories of Reshetikhin-Turaev type based on arbitrary modular tensor categories. Boundary conditions are described by central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert , Alessandro Valentino

We construct a new class of three-dimensional topological quantum field theories (3d TQFTs) by considering generalized Argyres-Douglas theories on $S^1 \times M_3$ with a non-trivial holonomy of a discrete global symmetry along the $S^1$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-14 Mykola Dedushenko , Sergei Gukov , Hiraku Nakajima , Du Pei , Ke Ye

Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) pertinent to some emergent low energy phenomena of condensed matter lattice models in 2+1 and 3+1D are explored. Many of our field theories are highly-interacting without free quadratic analogs.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-04 Pavel Putrov , Juven Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

Starting from an abelian group $G$ and a factorizable ribbon Hopf $G$-bialgebra $H$, we construct a TQFT $J_H$ for connected framed cobordisms between connected surfaces with connected boundary decorated with cohomology classes with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Marco De Renzi , Jules Martel , Bangxin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to describe an analogue of a construction of Costello in the context of finite-dimensional differential graded Frobenius algebras which produces closed forms on the decorated moduli space of Riemann surfaces. We…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Alastair Hamilton

We consider a cobordism category whose morphisms are punctured connect sums of $S^1 \times S^2$'s (wormhole spaces) with embedded admissibly colored banded trivalent graphs. We define a TQFT on this cobordism category over the field of…

q-alg · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Patrick Gilmer

Nearly Frobenius structures and 2-dimensional Almost TQFTs were introduced and shown to be in categorical equivalence in arXiv:1907.05470 in the attempt to extend the Atiyah-Segal's definition to the category of infinite dimensional vector…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-14 William Davis , Olivia Dumitrescu

We study surface defects in three-dimensional topological quantum field theories which separate different theories of Reshetikhin-Turaev type. Based on the new notion of a Frobenius algebra over two commutative Frobenius algebras, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Vincent Koppen , Vincentas Mulevicius , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

We study the fusion 3-categorical symmetries for quantum theories in (3+1)d with self-duality defects. Such defects have been realized physically by half-space gauging in theories with 1-form symmetries $A[1]$ for an abelian group $A$, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Thibault Décoppet , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Matthew Yu