Functorial Approach to QFT, part 2

Speaker: Andrey Losev (SIMIS)

Time: 2025-11-12 13:00-18:00
Location: 1310, SIMIS
Zoom Meeting ID:871 6008 9240 Passcode:SIMIS

Abstract:
1. Two different ways to Quantum theory – Feynman way and Dirac way.
2. Definition of QFT as a symmetric monoidal functor from geometrically enriched cobordisms to linear algebra
3. Local and figure observables
4. Quantum mechanics as an example of 1-dimensional QFT
5. Higher Topological QFT as closed functors
6. Rational conformal QFT as D-module like 2-dimensional examples
7. Gaussian models as another set of examples
8. Discussion