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Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Volume 21 (2017)
Number 4
Categorification of Dijkgraaf–Witten theory
Pages: 1023 – 1061
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/ATMP.2017.v21.n4.a5
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Abstract
The goal of the paper is to categorify Dijkgraaf–Witten (DW) theory, aiming at providing foundation for a direct construction of DW theory as an Extended Topological Quantum Field Theory. The main tool is cohomology with coefficients in a Picard groupoid, namely the Picard groupoid of hermitian lines.
This work was supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan, and a grant from the Simons Foundation (#282349 to A. V.).
Published 10 October 2017