A homological TQFT is a representation of the cobordism category that depends only on the homology of the hom-spaces.
In this is also called a homological conformal field theory. The passage to homology forgets the conformal structure. The refinement of this concept from homology groups to chain complexes is called TCFT.
Write for any given cobordism category, regarded as a Top-enriched category. A homological TQFT is a symmetric monoidal Ab-enriched functor
For 2-dimensional cobordisms with closed boundary HCFT has been considered in
A detailed treatment in involving arbitrary sets of branes is in section 2 of
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