4 papers
The prime decomposition fibre sequence for moduli spaces of reducible 3-manifolds
Rachael Boyd, Corey Bregman, Jan Steinebrunner
We study the moduli space , for a reducible, oriented 3-manifold with irreducible prime factors . A programme of César de Sá-Rourke, Hendri…
Open 2D TFTs admit initial open-closed extensions
Shaul Barkan, Jan Steinebrunner, Adela YiYu Zhang
We show that any open 2-dimensional topological field theory valued in a symmetric monoidal -category (with suitable colimits) extends canonically to an open-closed field t…
2-dimensional TFTs via modular -operads
Jan Steinebrunner
This lecture series is based on joint work in progress with Shaul Barkan, as well as work in progress of the author. The five sections of these notes correspond to the five lecture…
The classifying space of the one-dimensional bordism category and a cobordism model for TC of spaces
Jan Steinebrunner
The homotopy category of the bordism category has as objects closed oriented -manifolds and as morphisms diffeomorphism classes of -dimensional bordisms. Using…