PIRSA:22060020

TQFT's and flat connections

APA

Dimofte, T. (2022). TQFT's and flat connections. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/22060020

MLA

Dimofte, Tudor. TQFT's and flat connections. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 10, 2022, https://pirsa.org/22060020

BibTex

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:22060020,
            doi = {10.48660/22060020},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/22060020},
            author = {Dimofte, Tudor},
            keywords = {Mathematical physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {TQFT{\textquoteright}s and flat connections},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2022},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:22060020 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Tudor Dimofte University of Edinburgh

Abstract

I will discuss some of the (higher) structure of TQFT's that can be deformed by flat connections for continuous global symmetries, focusing on examples coming from twists of 3d supersymmetric theories, and the manifestation of this structure in boundary VOA's.