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Greyson Wesley

Unitary TQFTs and higher Hilbert spacesGreyson Wesley - Mathematics, The Ohio State University

Date:
Wednesday, Oct. 21
10:00 AM
Location:
online
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Unitary TQFTs and higher Hilbert spacesGreyson Wesley - Mathematics, The Ohio State University

Recent work suggests a manifestly unitary construction of higher Hilbert spaces. A key desideratum for higher Hilbert spaces is that they are the local data of fully extended unitary (reflection positive) TQFTs.  Disk-like higher categories in the sense of Morrison–Walker are defined to describe the local data of a fully extended TQFT in the absence of unitarity.  In this talk, I will introduce a notion of unitary disk-like $n$-category meant to capture the local data of a fully extended unitary TQFT, briefly review 2- and 3-Hilbert spaces, and discuss the equivalence between unitary disk-like $n$-categories and $(n+1)$-Hilbert spaces in the cases $n=1$ and $n=2$.