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Comments on Summing over Bordisms in TQFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-19 v2

Abstract

Recent works in quantum gravity, motivated by the factorization problem and baby universes, have considered sums over bordisms with fixed boundaries in topological quantum field theory (TQFT). We discuss this construction and observe a curious splitting formula for the total amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00903,
  title  = {Comments on Summing over Bordisms in TQFT},
  author = {Anindya Banerjee and Gregory W. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00903},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

48 pages, 5 figures

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