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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 specialise the construction of orbifold graph TQFTs introduced in Carqueville et al., arXiv:2101.02482 to Reshetikhin-Turaev defect TQFTs. We explain that the modular fusion category ${\mathcal{C}}_{\mathcal{A}}$ constructed in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nils Carqueville , Vincentas Mulevicius , Ingo Runkel , Gregor Schaumann , Daniel Scherl

We develop the general theory for the construction of Extended Topological Quantum Field Theories (ETQFTs) associated with the Costantino-Geer-Patureau quantum invariants of closed 3-manifolds. In order to do so, we introduce relative…

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

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

A large class of symmetries of topological quantum field theories is naturally described by functors into higher categories of topological defects. Here we study 2-group symmetries of 3-dimensional TQFTs. We explain that these symmetries…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Nils Carqueville , Benjamin Haake

In this article, we discuss a (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theory, for short TQFT, with a Verlinde basis. As a conclusion of this general theory, we have a Dehn surgery formula. We show that Turaev-Viro-Ocneanu TQFT has a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nobuya Sato , Michihisa Wakui

We define a family of quantum invariants of closed oriented $3$-manifolds using spherical multi-fusion categories. The state sum nature of this invariant leads directly to $(2+1)$-dimensional topological quantum field theories…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Shawn X. Cui , Zhenghan Wang

It is known that the chiral part of any 2d conformal field theory defines a 3d topological quantum field theory: quantum states of this TQFT are the CFT conformal blocks. The main aim of this paper is to show that a similar CFT/TQFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Laurent Freidel , Kirill Krasnov

We construct extended TQFTs associated to Rozansky--Witten models with target manifolds $T^*\mathbb{C}^n$. The starting point of the construction is the 3-category whose objects are such Rozansky--Witten models, and whose morphisms are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ilka Brunner , Nils Carqueville , Daniel Roggenkamp

We define a once extended non-compact 3-dimensional TQFT $\mathcal{Z}$ from the data of a (potentially) non-semisimple modular tensor category. This is in the framework of generators and relations of [Bartlett et al., arxiv:1509.06811…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Theodoros Lagiotis

We construct a certain `cobordism category' ${\cal D}$ whose morphisms are suitably decorated cobordism classes between similarly decorated closed oriented 1-manifolds, and show that there is essentially a bijection between…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Vijay Kodiyalam , Vishwambhar Pati , V. S. Sunder

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

We prove a natural isomorphism between toral Chern-Simons theory with gauge group $\mathbb T=\mathfrak t/\Lambda\cong U(1)^n$ and the Reshetikhin-Turaev theory associated with the finite quadratic module determined by an even, integral,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Daniel Galviz

These notes offer a lightening introduction to topological quantum field theory in its functorial axiomatisation, assuming no or little prior exposure. We lay some emphasis on the connection between the path integral motivation and the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Nils Carqueville , Ingo Runkel

In the third paper in this series, we examine the Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro TQFTs at the level of surfaces. In particular, we show that for a closed surface $\Sigma$, $Z_{TV, \mathcal{C}}(\Sigma) \cong Z_{RT, Z(\C)}(\Sigma)$, thus…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Benjamin Balsam

Teichm\"uller TQFT is a unitary 3d topological theory whose Hilbert spaces are spanned by Liouville conformal blocks. It is related but not identical to PSL(2,R) Chern-Simons theory. To physicists, it is known in particular in the context…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Victor Mikhaylov

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 study the cohomology of $G$-representation varieties and $G$-character stacks by means of a topological quantum field theory (TQFT). This TQFT is constructed as the composite of a so-called field theory and the 6-functor formalism of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Jesse Vogel

In this short note, we propose a generalization of Atiyah type TQFTs from pure states to mixed states in the sense that the Hilbert space of pure states associated to a space manifold is replaced by a quantum coherent space related to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Modjtaba Shokrian Zini , Zhenghan Wang

In [BK], it is shown that the Turaev-Viro invariants defined for a spherical fusion category $\mathcal{A}$ extends to invariants of 3-manifolds with corners. In [Kir], an equivalent formulation for the 2-1 part of the theory (2-manifolds…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Alexander Kirillov , Ying Hong Tham