Integral bases for TQFT modules and unimodular representations of mapping class groups
- Resource Type
- Working Paper
- Authors
- Gilmer, Patrick M.; Masbaum, Gregor; van Wamelen, Paul
- Source
- Comment. Math. Helv. 79 (2004), no. 2, 260--284
- Subject
- Mathematics - Quantum Algebra
Mathematics - Geometric Topology
21 pages
- Language
We construct integral bases for the SO(3)-TQFT-modules of surfaces in genus one and two at roots of unity of prime order and show that the corresponding mapping class group representations preserve a unimodular Hermitian form over a ring of algebraic integers. For higher genus surfaces the Hermitian form sometimes must be non-unimodular. In one such case, genus 3 and p=5, we still give an explicit basis.