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On dualizable objects in monoidal bicategories, framed surfaces and the Cobordism Hypothesis

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Speaker: 
Piotr Pstrągowski
Date: 
Wed, 10/09/2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
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Extra talk

I will talk about the subject of my Master's thesis, which concerns the coherence theory of dualizable objects in monoidal bicategories and a diagrammatic calculus of framed surfaces. The latter leads to a presentation of the framed bordism bicategory and thus a complete classification of two-dimensional framed topological field theories in terms of a small amount of data. I will explain how these two subjects are related to the Cobordism Hypothesis.

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