Topological Field Theory, Higher Categories, and Their Applications
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It has been common wisdom among mathematicians that Extended Topological Field Theory in dimensions higher than two is naturally formulated in terms of n-categories with n> 1. Recently the physical meaning of these higher categorical structures has been recognized and concrete examples of Extended TFTs have been constructed. Some of these examples, like the Rozansky-Witten model, are of geometric nature, while others are related to representation theory. I outline two application of higher-dimensional TFTs. One is related to the problem of classifying monoidal deformations of the derived category of coherent sheaves, and the other one is geometric Langlands duality.
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