05.03.2025 (Wednesday)

Categorical description of fermionic topological theories in 3+1d

Informal Seminar Matthew Yu (Oxford)

at:
12:00 Other
room LIMS, Royal Institution
abstract:

Topological field theories, or what is otherwise commonly known as topological orders, can be given a rigorous axiomization in terms of higher fusion categories with some extra structure. The extra structure is necessary to incorporate the relevant physical properties of topological orders. With this categorical framework we can give classifications of topological orders in low dimensions. I will explain how this is done for (3+1)d topological orders that are fermionic in nature. with Pedagogical Intro by Juven Wang