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LOCATION:https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95409452465
SUMMARY:Constructing an Extended TFT from an A-infinity Algebra\, Thes
 is Defense\, Weng-Him Cheung \, Physics PhD Graduate Student
DESCRIPTION:It is known that the category of 2-dimensional topological
  (quantum) field theories is equivalent to the category of commutative
  Frobenius algebras. Costello extended this equivalence to cyclic A-in
 finity algebras by introducing what he called topological conformal fi
 eld theories\, though he did not provide a construction. Kontsevich an
 d Soibelman later sketched a formula for constructing a positive-bound
 ary 2-dimensional topological field theory from a cyclic A-infinity al
 gebra\, but they only provided rough ideas. Following their work\, we 
 present the explicit construction in full detail. In particular\, we d
 escribe a procedure for computing the correct signs\, which had previo
 usly not been discussed.
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