PIRSA:26050010

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https://pirsa.org/26050010

McNamara-Wang Reconstruction

Johnson-Freyd, T. (2026). McNamara-Wang Reconstruction. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/26050010

Johnson-Freyd, Theo. McNamara-Wang Reconstruction. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May. 01, 2026, https://pirsa.org/26050010 

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            doi = {10.48660/26050010},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/26050010},
            author = {Johnson-Freyd, Theo},
            keywords = {Mathematical physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {McNamara-Wang Reconstruction},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2026},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:26050010 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/26050010}}
          }

Theo Johnson-Freyd Dalhousie University

Talk numberPIRSA:26050010
DOI10.48660/26050010
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I will say some words about nonunital categories, and tell you an awesome new theorem of McNamara and Wang: unitary QFTs are determined by their partition functions.