On realizations of Pachner moves in 4D

Abstract

The combinatorial structure of Pachner moves in four dimensions is analyzed in the case of a distinguished move of the type (3,3) and few examples of solutions are reviewed. In particular, solutions associated to Pontryagin self-dual locally compact abelian groups are characterized with remarkable symmetry properties which, in the case of finite abelian groups, give rise to a simple model of combinatorial TQFT with corners in four dimensions.