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Turaev-Viro invariants as an extended TQFT (1004.1533v3)
Published 9 Apr 2010 in math.GT and math.QA
Abstract: In this paper we show how one can extend Turaev-Viro invariants, defined for an arbitrary spherical fusion category $C$, to 3-manifolds with corners. We demonstrate that this gives an extended TQFT which conjecturally coincides with the Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT corresponding to the Drinfeld center $Z(C)$. In the present paper we give a partial proof of this statement.