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November 30, 2009
Monday, November 30
Geometry and Topology
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Jeffrey Morton (Western)
Title: "Extended TQFT by 2-Linearization"
Room: MC 108

Abstract: In this talk, I will describe a 2-functor, called "2-linearization", from spans of groupoids into 2-vector spaces (C-linear abelian categories). Using groupoids representing moduli stacks of flat connections, this gives rise, for every finite group G, to an "extended topological quantum field theory", a 2-functorial invariant for manifolds with corners. I will also discuss how to extend this to compact Lie groups, including measures on stacks, and a generalization of the category of distintegrations (a nice category of measure spaces) to stacks.