TMF-valued TQFT conjecture for four-dimensional invariants

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Let Z\mathcal{Z} denote the invariants of closed 3- and 4-manifolds and the proposed maps associated to cobordisms, valued in modules over TMF⁡\operatorname{TMF}. TMF-valued TQFT conjecture. These invariants give rise to a (3+1)(3+1)-dimensional TQFT valued in modules over the ring spectrum TMF⁡\operatorname{TMF}. The construction is currently partial: the proposed cobordism maps still require extensions and further functoriality, so the existence of the full TQFT remains open.

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Sergei Gukov, Vyacheslav Krushkal, Lennart Meier and Du Pei, “A new approach to (3+1)-dimensional TQFTs via topological modular forms”, arXiv:2509.12402 (2025).

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