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The bicategory of Landau-Ginzburg models

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February 12, 2013
Keywords:
  • Landau-Ginzburg model
  • matrix factorization categories
  • hypersurfaces
  • isolated singularities
  • topological field theory
  • bicategory
  • noncommutative algebra
  • representation theory
  • homological algebra
  • commutative algebra
  • resolutions of modules
MSC:
  • 18G35
  • 18G10
  • 18Gxx
  • 16Gxx
  • 18-xx
Abstract
In two dimensions, topological field theories with defects are naturally related to bicategories with additional structure. I will explain this connection and recent joint work with Nils Carqueville on the bicategory of Landau-Ginzburg models which is built out of isolated hypersurface singularities and matrix factorisations.
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