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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 292 - Topology Seminar

Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen

University of Aarhus

TQFT and quantization of moduli spaces

Abstract:

The Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev Topological Quantum Field Theory in particular provides us with the so-called quantum representations of mapping class groups. The geometric construction of these involves geometric quantization of moduli spaces, which produced a holomorphic vector bundle over Teichm\"uller space. This bundle supports a projectively flat connection constructed by algebraic geometric techniques by Hitchin. We will present a a Toeplitz operator approximation formula for the parallel transport of the Hitchin connection. We will discuss applications of this

Host: Justin Roberts

September 25, 2009

4:00 PM

AP&M 7218

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