A GNS construction of three-dimensional abelian Dijkgraaf-Witten theories
arXiv:1703.05018 · doi:10.1142/S0129055X18500058
Abstract
We give a detailed account of the so-called "universal construction" that aims to extend invariants of closed manifolds, possibly with additional structure, to topological field theories and show that it amounts to a generalization of the GNS construction. We apply this construction to an invariant defined in terms of the groupoid cardinality of groupoids of bundles to recover Dijkgraaf-Witten theories, including the vector spaces obtained as a linearization of spaces of principal bundles.
17 pages, 4 figures, v2: typos corrected