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I will explain a construction of a combinatorial 2d TCFT, assigning partition functions to triangulated cobordisms (as chain maps between spaces of states), in such a way that a Pachner flip induces a Q-exact change. More generally, the partition function becomes a nonhomogeneous closed cochain on the “flip complex.” One has a combinatorial counterpart of the BV operator G_{0,-} arising from evaluating the theory on a special 1-cycle on the flip complex of the cylinder. The local input for the model is a cyclic A-infinity algebra, with the operation m_3 playing the role of the BRST-primitive G of the stress-energy tensor T=Q(G).
I will also describe a way to incorporate invariance-up-to-homotopy with respect to the second 2d Pachner move (stellar subdivision/aggregation). This version of the model is based on secondary polytopes of Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky and uses a certain enhancement (by extra homotopies) version of a cyclic A-infinity algebra as input
The talk is based on a joint work with Andrey Losev and Justin Beck, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04468.pdf.
