Towards Super Teichm\"uller Spin TQFT

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2022.V26.N2.A1arXiv2008.09829MaRDI QIDQ6347544

Masahito Yamazaki, Nezhla Aghaei, M. K. Pawelkiewicz

Publication date: 22 August 2020

Abstract: The quantization of the Teichm"uller theory has led to the formulation of the so-called Teichm"uller TQFT for 3-manifolds. In this paper we initiate the study of "supersymmetrization" of the Teichm"uller TQFT, which we call the super Teichm"uller spin TQFT. We obtain concrete expressions for the partition functions of the super Teichm"uller spin TQFT for a class of spin 3-manifold geometries, by taking advantage of the recent results on the quantization of the super Teichm"uller theory. We then compute the perturbative expansions of the partition functions, to obtain perturbative invariants of spin 3-manifolds. We also comment on the relations of the super Teichm"uller spin TQFT to 3-dimensional Chern-Simons theories with complex gauge groups, and to a class of 3d N=2 theories arising from the compactifications of the M5-branes.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05)

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