Topological Quantum Field Theory Seminar  

26/02/2014, 16:00 — 17:00 — Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
John Huerta, IST, Lisbon

What can higher categories do for physics? Part II

In this follow up to last year's talk, we briefly review the cobordism hypothesis that formed the subject of our first part, and then outline its use for the existence and construction of field theories, in particular Chern-Simons theory, as discussed in a 2009 paper of Freed, Hopkins, Lurie and Teleman.