The bicategory of Landau-Ginzburg models
Presenter
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.