Sections of fiber bundles over surfaces and TQFTs
Author(s) -
Vladimir Turaev
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
quantum topology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.763
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1663-487X
pISSN - 1664-073X
DOI - 10.4171/qt/7
Subject(s) - mathematics , fiber bundle , mathematical proof , cohomology , topological quantum field theory , pure mathematics , fiber , group (periodic table) , field (mathematics) , algebra over a field , topology (electrical circuits) , combinatorics , geometry , quantum mechanics , physics , chemistry , organic chemistry
We study the existence problem and the enumeration problem for sections of Serre fibrations over compact orientable surfaces. When the fundamental group of the fiber is finite, a complete solution is given in terms of 2-dimensional cohomology classes associated with certain irreducible representations of this group. The proofs are based on Topological Quantum Field Theory.
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