Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces and projective representations

Time

May 15 2008 - 2:30pm

Location

MW 154

Speaker

Vladimir Turaev (University of Indiana at Bloomington)

Abstract

Abstract. We compute the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces in terms of projective representations of groups. As an application we prove that the complex Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of surfaces of positive genus are positive integers.
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