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Examples of Riemannian Functorial Quantum Field Theory

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posted on 2014-07-02, 00:00 authored by Santosh Kandel
Following Atiyah, Segal, Kontsevich and others, a $d$-dimensional Riemannian Functorial Quantum Field Theory $E$ assigns to a closed $d-1$ dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold a Hilbert space $E(Y)$ and to a bordism $Sigma$ from $Y_1$ to $Y_2$(which is a compact oriented Riemannian manifold with $partialSigma=Y_2sqcup overline{Y_1}$) a Hilbert-Schmidt operator $E(Sigma):E(Y_1) o E(Y_2)$ so that gluing bordisms corresponds to composing the associated operators. If we forget the Riemannian structure on the $Y$'s and the bordisms, then there are many examples which are known has Topological Quantum Field Theories. In 2007, Douglas Pickrell constructed a family of examples of $2$-dimensional theory. In this dissertation, we construct examples of $d$-dimensional theory when $d$ is even.

History

Date Modified

2017-06-05

Defense Date

2014-05-28

Research Director(s)

Stephan Stolz

Committee Members

Brain Hall Bruce Williams Liviu Nicolaescu

Degree

  • Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Level

  • Doctoral Dissertation

Language

  • English

Alternate Identifier

etd-07022014-135044

Publisher

University of Notre Dame

Program Name

  • Mathematics

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