Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory

In this paper, we study Lagrangian correspondences between Hilbert spaces. A main focus is on the question of when the composition of two Lagrangian correspondences is again Lagrangian. Our answer leads in particular to a well-defined composition law in a category of Lagrangian correspondences respe...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2024
Main Author: Ludewig, Matthias
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Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2024
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212159
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description In this paper, we study Lagrangian correspondences between Hilbert spaces. A main focus is on the question of when the composition of two Lagrangian correspondences is again Lagrangian. Our answer leads in particular to a well-defined composition law in a category of Lagrangian correspondences respecting given polarizations of the Hilbert spaces involved. As an application, we construct a functorial field theory on geometric spin manifolds with values in this category of Lagrangian correspondences, which can be viewed as a formal Wick rotation of the theory associated with a free fermionic particle in a curved spacetime.
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Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory. Matthias Ludewig. SIGMA 20 (2024), 036, 29 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 19K56; 58J20; 81T45
arXiv:2212.02956
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212159
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2024.036
In this paper, we study Lagrangian correspondences between Hilbert spaces. A main focus is on the question of when the composition of two Lagrangian correspondences is again Lagrangian. Our answer leads in particular to a well-defined composition law in a category of Lagrangian correspondences respecting given polarizations of the Hilbert spaces involved. As an application, we construct a functorial field theory on geometric spin manifolds with values in this category of Lagrangian correspondences, which can be viewed as a formal Wick rotation of the theory associated with a free fermionic particle in a curved spacetime.
I thank Ulrich Bunke for helpful discussions. It is a pleasure to thank Christian B¨ar for his continuing support over many years. I also thank the anonymous referees for their suggestions that helped improve the paper. The author is indebted to SFB 1085 “Higher Invariants” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for financial support.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory
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spellingShingle Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory
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title Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory
title_full Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory
title_fullStr Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory
title_full_unstemmed Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory
title_short Categories of Lagrangian Correspondences in Super Hilbert Spaces and Fermionic Functorial Field Theory
title_sort categories of lagrangian correspondences in super hilbert spaces and fermionic functorial field theory
url https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212159
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