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Let $(\cF,U)$ be a fixed system of fields and local relations. |
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We'll assume it is enriched over \textbf{Vect}; |
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if it is not we can make it so by allowing finite |
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linear combinations of elements of $\cF(X; c)$, for fixed $c\in \cF(\bd X)$. |
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%In this section we will usually suppress boundary conditions on $X$ from the notation, e.g. by writing $\cF(X)$ instead of $\cF(X; c)$. |
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\[ |
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A(X) \deq \cF(X) / U(X) |
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of Definition \ref{defn:TQFT-invariant} with a resolution |
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\cdots \to \bc_2(X) \to \bc_1(X) \to \bc_0(X) . |
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We will define $\bc_0(X)$, $\bc_1(X)$ and $\bc_2(X)$, then give the general case $\bc_k(X)$. |
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In fact, on the first pass we will intentionally describe the definition in a misleadingly simple way, |
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then explain the technical difficulties, and finally give a cumbersome but complete definition in |
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Definition \ref{defn:blobs}. |
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If (we don't recommend it) you want to keep track of the ways in which |
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this initial description is misleading, or you're reading through a second time to understand the |
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technical difficulties, keep note that later we will give precise meanings to ``a ball in $X$'', |
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``nested'' and ``disjoint'', that are not quite the intuitive ones. |
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Moreover some of the pieces |
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into which we cut manifolds below are not themselves manifolds, and it requires special attention |
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to define fields on these pieces. |
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We of course define $\bc_0(X) = \cF(X)$. |
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(If $X$ has nonempty boundary, instead define $\bc_0(X; c) = \cF(X; c)$ for each $c \in \cF(\bdy X)$. |
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We'll omit such boundary conditions from the notation in the rest of this section.) |
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In other words, $\bc_0(X)$ is just the vector space of all fields on $X$. |
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We want the vector space $\bc_1(X)$ to capture |
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``the space of all local relations that can be imposed on $\bc_0(X)$". |
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Thus we say a $1$-blob diagram consists of: |
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\begin{itemize} |
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\item An closed ball in $X$ (``blob") $B \sub X$. |
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\item A boundary condition $c \in \cF(\bdy B) = \cF(\bd(X \setmin B))$. |
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\item A field $r \in \cF(X \setmin B; c)$. |
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\item A local relation field $u \in U(B; c)$. |
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\end{itemize} |
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(See Figure \ref{blob1diagram}.) Since $c$ is implicitly determined by $u$ or $r$, we usually omit it from the notation. |
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\begin{figure}[t]\begin{equation*} |
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\mathfig{.6}{definition/single-blob} |
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\end{equation*}\caption{A 1-blob diagram.}\label{blob1diagram}\end{figure} |
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In order to get the linear structure correct, we define |
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\bc_1(X) \deq \bigoplus_B \bigoplus_c U(B; c) \otimes \cF(X \setmin B; c) . |
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The first direct sum is indexed by all blobs $B\subset X$, and the second |
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by all boundary conditions $c \in \cF(\bd B)$. |
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Note that $\bc_1(X)$ is spanned by 1-blob diagrams $(B, u, r)$. |
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(B, u, r) \mapsto u\bullet r, |
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where $u\bullet r$ denotes the field on $X$ obtained by gluing $u$ to $r$. |
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In other words $\bd : \bc_1(X) \to \bc_0(X)$ is given by |
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just erasing the blob from the picture |
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(but keeping the blob label $u$). |
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\nn{it seems rather strange to make this a theorem} |
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\nn{it's a theorem because it's stated in the introduction, and I wanted everything there to have numbers that pointed into the paper --S} |
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\begin{thm} |
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\label{thm:skein-modules} |
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The skein module $A(X)$ is naturally isomorphic to $\bc_0(X)/\bd(\bc_1(X))) = H_0(\bc_*(X))$. |
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\end{thm} |
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This also establishes the second |
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half of Property \ref{property:contractibility}. |
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Next, we want the vector space $\bc_2(X)$ to capture ``the space of all relations |
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local relations encoded in $\bc_1(X)$''. |
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A $2$-blob diagram, comes in one of two types, disjoint and nested. |
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\item A pair of closed balls (blobs) $B_1, B_2 \sub X$ with disjoint interiors. |
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\item A field $r \in \cF(X \setmin (B_1 \cup B_2); c_1, c_2)$ |
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(where $c_i \in \cF(\bd B_i)$). |
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\item Local relation fields $u_i \in U(B_i; c_i)$, $i=1,2$. |
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\begin{figure}[t]\begin{equation*} |
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\end{equation*}\caption{A disjoint 2-blob diagram.}\label{blob2ddiagram}\end{figure} |
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We also identify $(B_1, B_2, u_1, u_2, r)$ with $-(B_2, B_1, u_2, u_1, r)$; |
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Define $\bd(B_1, B_2, u_1, u_2, r) = |
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(B_2, u_2, u_1\bullet r) - (B_1, u_1, u_2\bullet r) \in \bc_1(X)$. |
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\item A field $r' \in \cF(B_2 \setminus B_1; c_1, c_2)$ |
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(for some $c_1 \in \cF(\bdy B_1)$ and $c_2 \in \cF(\bdy B_2)$). |
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\item A field $r \in \cF(X \setminus B_2; c_2)$. |
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\item A local relation field $u \in U(B_1; c_1)$. |
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U(B_1; c_1) \otimes U(B_2; c_2) \otimes \cF(X\setmin (B_1\cup B_2); c_1, c_2) |
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\bigoplus_{B_1 \subset B_2} \bigoplus_{c_1, c_2} |
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Roughly, $\bc_k(X)$ is generated by configurations of $k$ blobs, pairwise disjoint or nested, |
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along with fields on all the components that the blobs divide $X$ into. |
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Blobs which have no other blobs inside are called `twig blobs', |
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and the fields on the twig blobs must be local relations. |
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\item If $X'$ is obtained from $X$ by gluing, then any permissible configuration of blobs |
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Combining these two operations can give rise to configurations of blobs whose complement in $X$ is not |
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A & = [0,1] \times [0,1] \times [0,1] \\ |
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B & = [0,1] \times [-1,0] \times [0,1] \\ |
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C & = [-1,0] \times \setc{(y,z)}{z \sin(1/z) \leq y \leq 1, z \in [0,1]} \\ |
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Now, $\{A\}$ is a valid configuration of blobs in $A \cup B$, |
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and $\{C\}$ is a valid configuration of blobs in $C \cup D$, |
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so we must allow $\{A, C\}$ as a configuration of blobs in $[-1,1]^2 \times [0,1]$. |
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Given a gluing decomposition $M_0 \to M_1 \to \cdots \to M_m = X$, we say that a field is |
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A configuration of $k$ blobs in $X$ is an ordered collection of $k$ subsets $\{B_1, \ldots B_k\}$ |
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boundary of the ball $M_r'$ may have been glued together. |
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Note that often the gluing decomposition for a configuration of blobs may just be the trivial one: |
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if the boundaries of all the blobs cut $X$ into pieces which are all manifolds, |
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we can just take $M_0$ to be these pieces, and $M_1 = X$. |
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In the informal description above, in the definition of a $k$-blob diagram we asked for any |
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collection of $k$ balls which were pairwise disjoint or nested. |
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We now further insist that the balls are a configuration in the sense of Definition \ref{defn:configuration}. |
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\item a configuration $\{B_1, \ldots B_k\}$ of $k$ blobs in $X$, |
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\item and a field $r \in \cF(X)$ which is splittable along some gluing decomposition compatible with that configuration, |
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the restriction $u_i$ of $r$ to each twig blob $B_i$ lies in the subspace |
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$U(B_i) \subset \cF(B_i)$. |
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(See Figure \ref{blobkdiagram}.) |
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More precisely, each twig blob $B_i$ is the image of some ball $M_r'$ as above, |
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\begin{figure}[t]\begin{equation*} |
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\mathfig{.7}{definition/k-blobs} |
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\end{equation*}\caption{A $k$-blob diagram.}\label{blobkdiagram}\end{figure} |
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The $k$-th vector space $\bc_k(X)$ of the \emph{blob complex} of $X$ is the direct sum over all |
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configurations of $k$ blobs in $X$ of the vector space of $k$-blob diagrams with that configuration, |
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modulo identifying the vector spaces for configurations that only differ by a permutation of the balls |
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by the sign of that permutation. |
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The differential $\bc_k(X) \to \bc_{k-1}(X)$ is, as above, the signed sum of ways of |
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forgetting one blob from the configuration, preserving the field $r$: |
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\begin{equation*} |
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\bdy(\{B_1, \ldots B_k\}, r) = \sum_{i=1}^{k} (-1)^{i+1} (\{B_1, \ldots, \widehat{B_i}, \ldots, B_k\}, r) |
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\end{defn} |
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We readily see that if a gluing decomposition is compatible with some configuration of blobs, |
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then it is also compatible with any configuration obtained by forgetting some blobs, |
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A slight compensation to the complication of the official definition arising from attention |
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Note that Property \ref{property:functoriality}, that the blob complex is functorial with respect to homeomorphisms, |
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A homeomorphism acts in an obvious way on blobs and on fields. |
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We define the {\it support} of a blob diagram $b$, $\supp(b) \sub X$, |
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We note that blob diagrams in $X$ have a structure similar to that of a simplicial set, |
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Let $P$ be the minimal set of (isomorphisms classes of) polyhedra which is closed under products |
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and cones, and which contains the point. |
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\item $p(a \du b) = p(a) \times p(b)$, where $a \du b$ denotes the distant (non-overlapping) union |
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\item $p(\bar{b}) = \kone(p(b))$, where $\bar{b}$ is obtained from $b$ by adding an outer blob which |
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$x - s(e(x))$, where $x$ is an arbitrary field on $B_i$, $e: \cF(B_i) \to C$ is the evaluation map, |
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and $s:C \to \cF(B_i)$ is some fixed section of $e$.) |
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\nn{can we think of a better name?} |
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we'll call elements of $P$ cone-product polyhedra, |
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