1306.6941 (Simon Scott)

Log-TQFT and torsion    [PDF]

Simon Scott

The goal here is to put into place an algebraic theory, or rather a categorification, of logarithmic representations and their log-determinant characters which captures a class of additive homotopy invariants defined by generalised Reidemeister torsions on the bordism category.

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