# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1305148810 25200 # Node ID 682fd0520c664425348068bf7ec7a85623a9b93d # Parent c24e59300fcaf9085b5103bcdc255749cd876b9d added a sentence about conditions of existence of path integrals (at PT's request); other minor stuff diff -r c24e59300fca -r 682fd0520c66 blob to-do --- a/blob to-do Tue May 10 14:30:23 2011 -0700 +++ b/blob to-do Wed May 11 14:20:10 2011 -0700 @@ -70,3 +70,5 @@ * lemma [inject 6.3.5?] assumes more splittablity than the axioms imply (?) +* consider putting conditions for enriched n-cat all in one place + diff -r c24e59300fca -r 682fd0520c66 text/tqftreview.tex --- a/text/tqftreview.tex Tue May 10 14:30:23 2011 -0700 +++ b/text/tqftreview.tex Wed May 11 14:20:10 2011 -0700 @@ -444,11 +444,13 @@ The construction of the $n{+}1$-dimensional part of the theory (the path integral) requires that the starting data (fields and local relations) satisfy additional conditions. -We do not assume these conditions here, so when we say ``TQFT" we mean a decapitated TQFT +(Specifically, $A(X; c)$ is finite dimensional for all $n$-manifolds $X$ and the inner products +on $A(B^n; c)$ induced by the path integral of $B^{n+1}$ are positive definite for all $c$.) +We do not assume these conditions here, so when we say ``TQFT" we mean a ``decapitated" TQFT that lacks its $n{+}1$-dimensional part. -Such a ``decapitated'' TQFT is sometimes also called an $n+\epsilon$ or -$n+\frac{1}{2}$ dimensional TQFT, referring to the fact that it assigns maps to $n{+}1$-dimensional -mapping cylinders between $n$-manifolds, but nothing to arbitrary $n{+}1$-manifolds. +Such a decapitated TQFT is sometimes also called an $n{+}\epsilon$ or +$n{+}\frac{1}{2}$ dimensional TQFT, referring to the fact that it assigns linear maps to $n{+}1$-dimensional +mapping cylinders between $n$-manifolds, but nothing to general $n{+}1$-manifolds. Let $Y$ be an $n{-}1$-manifold. Define a linear 1-category $A(Y)$ as follows.