A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One

In this paper, we develop a general framework of geometric functorial field theories, meaning that all bordisms in question are endowed with geometric structures. We take particular care to establish a notion of smooth variation of such geometric structures, so that it makes sense to require the out...

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Опубліковано в: :Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Дата:2021
Автори: Ludewig, Matthias, Stoffel, Augusto
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Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Інститут математики НАН України 2021
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Цитувати:A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One. Matthias Ludewig and Augusto Stoffel. SIGMA 17 (2021), 072, 58 pages

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A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One. Matthias Ludewig and Augusto Stoffel. SIGMA 17 (2021), 072, 58 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 57R56; 14D21; 57R22
arXiv:2001.05721
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211351
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2021.072
In this paper, we develop a general framework of geometric functorial field theories, meaning that all bordisms in question are endowed with geometric structures. We take particular care to establish a notion of smooth variation of such geometric structures, so that it makes sense to require the output of our field theory to depend smoothly on the input. We then test our framework on the case of 1-dimensional field theories (with or without orientation) over a manifold . Here, the expectation is that such a field theory is equivalent to the data of a vector bundle over with connection and, in the nonoriented case, the additional data of a nondegenerate bilinear pairing; we prove that this is indeed the case in our framework.
We thank Dmitri Pavlov, Peter Teichner, Konrad Waldorf, and, especially, Stephan Stolz for helpful discussions. We are further indebted to the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and the University of Greifswald, where part of this research was conducted. The first-named author was partially supported by the ARC Discovery Project grant FL170100020 under Chief Investigator and Australian Laureate Fellow Mathai Varghese.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One
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spellingShingle A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One
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title_fullStr A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One
title_full_unstemmed A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One
title_short A Framework for Geometric Field Theories and Their Classification in Dimension One
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