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Let $X$ be an $n$-manifold. |
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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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\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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(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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\begin{thm} |
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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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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 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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U(B_1; c_1) \otimes \cF(B_2 \setmin B_1; c_1, c_2) \tensor \cF(X \setminus B_2; c_2) |
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Roughly, $\bc_k(X)$ is generated by configurations of $k$ blobs, pairwise disjoint or nested, along with fields on all the components that the blobs divide $X$ into. Blobs which have no other blobs inside are called `twig blobs', and the fields on the twig blobs must be local relations. |
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The boundary is the alternating sum of erasing one of the blobs. |
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which configurations of balls inside $X$ we permit. |
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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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Here $A \cup B = [0,1] \times [-1,1] \times [0,1]$ and $C \cup D = [-1,0] \times [-1,1] \times [0,1]$. Now, $\{A\}$ is a valid configuration of blobs in $A \cup B$, and $\{C\}$ is a valid configuration of blobs in $C \cup D$, so we must allow $\{A, C\}$ as a configuration of blobs in $[-1,1]^2 \times [0,1]$. Note however that the complement is not a manifold. |
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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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$M_r$ which is a ball, so $B_i$ is the image of $M_r'$ in $X$. |
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that for any two blobs in a configuration of blobs in $X$, |
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they either have disjoint interiors, or one blob is contained in the other. |
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Note that often the gluing decomposition for a configuration of blobs may just be the trivial one: if the boundaries of all the blobs cut $X$ into pieces which are all manifolds, 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 collection of $k$ balls which were pairwise disjoint or nested. We now further insist that the balls are a configuration in the sense of Definition \ref{defn:configuration}. Also, we asked for a local relation on each twig blob, and a field on the complement of the twig blobs; this is unsatisfactory because that complement need not be a manifold. Thus, the official definitions are |
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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 $U(B_i) \subset \cF(B_i)$. (See Figure \ref{blobkdiagram}.) More precisely, each twig blob $B_i$ is the image of some ball $M_r'$ as above, and it is really the restriction to $M_r'$ that must lie in the subspace $U(M_r')$. |
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\end{defn} |
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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 configurations of $k$ blobs in $X$ of the vector space of $k$-blob diagrams with that configuration, modulo identifying the vector spaces for configurations that only differ by a permutation of the balls by the sign of that permutation. The differential $\bc_k(X) \to \bc_{k-1}(X)$ is, as above, the signed sum of ways of forgetting one blob from the configuration, preserving the field $r$: |
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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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We readily see that if a gluing decomposition is compatible with some configuration of blobs, then it is also compatible with any configuration obtained by forgetting some blobs, ensuring that the differential in fact lands in the space of $k{-}1$-blob diagrams. |
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A slight compensation to the complication of the official definition arising from attention to splitting is that the differential now just preserves the entire field $r$ without having to say anything about gluing together fields on smaller components. |
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Note that Property \ref{property:functoriality}, that the blob complex is functorial with respect to homeomorphisms, |
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We define the {\it support} of a blob diagram $b$, $\supp(b) \sub X$, |
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\begin{remark} \label{blobsset-remark} \rm |
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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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$x - s(e(x))$, where $x$ is an arbitrary field on $B_i$, $e: \cF(B_i) \to C$ is the evaluation map, |
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