Algebraically closed higher categories
PIRSA ID:
21120010
Série :
Mathematical Series
Event Type:
Seminar
Domaine(s) scientifique(s) :
Mathematical Physics
Date de fin :
Speaker(s):
I will report on my progress, joint with David Reutter, to construct and analyze the algebraic closure of nVec – in other words, the universal n-category of framed nD TQFTs. The invertibles are Pontryagin dual to the stable homotopy groups of spheres. The Galois group is almost, but not quite, the stable PL group. An invertible TQFT can be condensed from the vacuum if and only if it trivializes on (possibly-exceptional) spheres.