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Topological Quantum Field Theory Seminar   RSS

20/03/2013, 11:30 — 12:30 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Aleksandar Mikovic, Univ. Lusófona

Categorification of Spin Foam Models

We briefly review spin foam state sums for triangulated manifolds and motivate the introduction of state sums based on 2-groups. We describe 2-BF gauge theories and the construction of the corresponding path integrals (state sums) in the case of Poincaré 2-group.

References

  • J. F. Martins and A. Mikovic, Lie crossed modules and gauge-invariant actions for 2-BF theories, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 15 (2011) 1059, arxiv:1006.0903
  • A. Mikovic and M. Vojinovic, Poincaré 2-group and quantum gravity, Class. Quant. Grav. 291 (2012) 165003, arxiv:1110.4694
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Current organizers: Roger Picken, Marko Stošić.

FCT Projects PTDC/MAT-GEO/3319/2014, Quantization and Kähler Geometry, PTDC/MAT-PUR/31089/2017, Higher Structures and Applications.

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