Title	Modular tensor categories from wild Higgs bundles
Creator	Pei, Du
Publisher	Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
Date Issued	2018-09-24T15:48
Description	We propose a new link between quantum invariants of 3-manifolds and the geometry of wild Hitchin moduli spaces. The construction goes through a class of four-dimensional quantum field theories known as Argyres-Douglas theories. Every such theory realizes a wild Hitchin space as its Coulomb branch and defines a VOA on the Higgs branch. The latter can be used to construct a non-unitary modular tensor category, which leads to 3d TQFTs that are generically semisimple but non-unitary. This is based on joint work with Mykola Dedushenko, Sergei Gukov, Hiraku Nakajima and Ke Ye.
Extent	48.0
Subject	Mathematics; Algebraic geometry; Quantum theory; Mathematical physics
Type	Moving Image
File Format	video/mp4
Language	eng
Notes	Author affiliation: Caltech
Series	BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos (Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico))
Date Available	2019-03-24
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0377377
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/69135
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Postdoctoral
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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