# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1300199113 25200 # Node ID 27cfae8f433033489aea7d8c56bd18e0e60766c6 # Parent 76ad188dbe68ecd7a603e3574d9f69ec76876046 remove long nooped section on linearizing fields diff -r 76ad188dbe68 -r 27cfae8f4330 text/tqftreview.tex --- a/text/tqftreview.tex Wed Mar 09 06:48:39 2011 -0700 +++ b/text/tqftreview.tex Tue Mar 15 07:25:13 2011 -0700 @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ \medskip + Using the functoriality and product field properties above, together with boundary collar homeomorphisms of manifolds, we can define {\it collar maps} $\cC(M)\to \cC(M)$. @@ -231,54 +232,6 @@ collar neighborhood. -% all this linearizing stuff is unnecessary, I think -\noop{ - -\nn{the following discussion of linearizing fields is kind of lame. -maybe just assume things are already linearized.} - -\nn{remark that if top dimensional fields are not already linear -then we will soon linearize them(?)} - -For top dimensional ($n$-dimensional) manifolds, we're actually interested -in the linearized space of fields. -By default, define $\lf(X) = \c[\cC(X)]$; that is, $\lf(X)$ is -the vector space of finite -linear combinations of fields on $X$. -If $X$ has boundary, we of course fix a boundary condition: $\lf(X; a) = \c[\cC(X; a)]$. -Thus the restriction (to boundary) maps are well defined because we never -take linear combinations of fields with differing boundary conditions. - -In some cases we don't linearize the default way; instead we take the -spaces $\lf(X; a)$ to be part of the data for the system of fields. -In particular, for fields based on linear $n$-category pictures we linearize as follows. -Define $\lf(X; a) = \c[\cC(X; a)]/K$, where $K$ is the space generated by -obvious relations on 0-cell labels. -More specifically, let $L$ be a cell decomposition of $X$ -and let $p$ be a 0-cell of $L$. -Let $\alpha_c$ and $\alpha_d$ be two labelings of $L$ which are identical except that -$\alpha_c$ labels $p$ by $c$ and $\alpha_d$ labels $p$ by $d$. -Then the subspace $K$ is generated by things of the form -$\lambda \alpha_c + \alpha_d - \alpha_{\lambda c + d}$, where we leave it to the reader -to infer the meaning of $\alpha_{\lambda c + d}$. -Note that we are still assuming that $n$-categories have linear spaces of $n$-morphisms. - -\nn{Maybe comment further: if there's a natural basis of morphisms, then no need; -will do something similar below; in general, whenever a label lives in a linear -space we do something like this; ? say something about tensor -product of all the linear label spaces? Yes:} - -For top dimensional ($n$-dimensional) manifolds, we linearize as follows. -Define an ``almost-field" to be a field without labels on the 0-cells. -(Recall that 0-cells are labeled by $n$-morphisms.) -To each unlabeled 0-cell in an almost field there corresponds a (linear) $n$-morphism -space determined by the labeling of the link of the 0-cell. -(If the 0-cell were labeled, the label would live in this space.) -We associate to each almost-labeling the tensor product of these spaces (one for each 0-cell). -We now define $\lf(X; a)$ to be the direct sum over all almost labelings of the -above tensor products. - -} % end \noop \subsection{Systems of fields from \texorpdfstring{$n$}{n}-categories}