diff -r 98b8559b0b7a -r 87b1507ebc56 text/tqftreview.tex --- a/text/tqftreview.tex Sat Jul 03 13:19:15 2010 -0600 +++ b/text/tqftreview.tex Sat Jul 03 15:14:24 2010 -0600 @@ -266,11 +266,17 @@ by an object (0-morphism) of $C$; \item a transverse orientation of each 0-cell, thought of as a choice of ``domain" and ``range" for the two adjacent 1-cells; and - \item a labeling of each 0-cell by a morphism (1-morphism) of $C$, with + \item a labeling of each 0-cell by a 1-morphism of $C$, with domain and range determined by the transverse orientation and the labelings of the 1-cells. \end{itemize} -If $C$ is an algebra (i.e. if $C$ has only one 0-morphism) we can ignore the labels +We want fields on 1-manifolds to be enriched over Vect, so we also allow formal linear combinations +of the above fields on a 1-manifold $X$ so long as these fields restrict to the same field on $\bd X$. + +In addition, we mod out by the relation which replaces +a 1-morphism label $a$ of a 0-cell $p$ with $a^*$ and reverse the transverse orientation of $p$. + +If $C$ is a *-algebra (i.e. if $C$ has only one 0-morphism) we can ignore the labels of 1-cells, so a field on a 1-manifold $S$ is a finite collection of points in the interior of $S$, each transversely oriented and each labeled by an element (1-morphism) of the algebra. @@ -297,12 +303,23 @@ and the labelings of the 2-cells; \item for each 0-cell, a homeomorphism of the boundary $R$ of a small neighborhood of the 0-cell to $S^1$ such that the intersections of the 1-cells with $R$ are not mapped -to $\pm 1 \in S^1$; and +to $\pm 1 \in S^1$ +(this amounts to splitting of the link of the 0-cell into domain and range); and \item a labeling of each 0-cell by a 2-morphism of $C$, with domain and range determined by the labelings of the 1-cells and the parameterizations of the previous bullet. \end{itemize} -\nn{need to say this better; don't try to fit everything into the bulleted list} + +As in the $n=1$ case, we allow formal linear combinations of fields on 2-manifolds, +so long as their restrictions to the boundary coincide. + +In addition, we regard the labelings as being equivariant with respect to the * structure +on 1-morphisms and pivotal structure on 2-morphisms. +That is, we mod out my the relation which flips the transverse orientation of a 1-cell +and replaces its label $a$ by $a^*$, as well as the relation which changes the parameterization of the link +of a 0-cell and replaces its label by the appropriate pivotal conjugate. + +\medskip For general $n$, a field on a $k$-manifold $X^k$ consists of \begin{itemize} @@ -313,18 +330,14 @@ domain and range determined by the labelings of the link of $j$-cell. \end{itemize} -%\nn{next definition might need some work; I think linearity relations should -%be treated differently (segregated) from other local relations, but I'm not sure -%the next definition is the best way to do it} - -\medskip - - \subsection{Local relations} \label{sec:local-relations} -Local relations are certain subspaces of the fields on balls, which form an ideal under gluing. + +For convenience we assume that fields are enriched over Vect. + +Local relations are subspaces $U(B; c)\sub \cC(B; c)$ of the fields on balls which form an ideal under gluing. Again, we give the examples first. \addtocounter{prop}{-2} @@ -363,13 +376,14 @@ \label{sec:constructing-a-tqft} In this subsection we briefly review the construction of a TQFT from a system of fields and local relations. -(For more details, see \cite{kw:tqft}.) +As usual, see \cite{kw:tqft} for more details. Let $W$ be an $n{+}1$-manifold. We can think of the path integral $Z(W)$ as assigning to each boundary condition $x\in \cC(\bd W)$ a complex number $Z(W)(x)$. In other words, $Z(W)$ lies in $\c^{\lf(\bd W)}$, the vector space of linear maps $\lf(\bd W)\to \c$. +(We haven't defined a path integral in this context; this is just for motivation.) The locality of the TQFT implies that $Z(W)$ in fact lies in a subspace $Z(\bd W) \sub \c^{\lf(\bd W)}$ defined by local projections. @@ -388,7 +402,7 @@ $$A(X) \deq \lf(X) / U(X),$$ where $\cU(X) \sub \lf(X)$ to be the space of local relations in $\lf(X)$; $\cU(X)$ is generated by things of the form $u\bullet r$, where -$u\in \cU(B)$ for some embedded $n$-ball $B\sub X$ and $r\in \cC(X\setmin B)$. +$u\in U(B)$ for some embedded $n$-ball $B\sub X$ and $r\in \cC(X\setmin B)$. \end{defn} (The blob complex, defined in the next section, is in some sense the derived version of $A(X)$.)