Invertible phases for mixed spatial symmetries and the fermionic crystalline equivalence principle

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Main Author: Debray, Arun
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contents Freed-Hopkins give a mathematical ansatz for classifying gapped invertible phases of matter with a spatial symmetry in terms of Borel-equivariant generalized homology. We propose a slight generalization of this ansatz to account for cases where the symmetry type mixes nontrivially with the spatial symmetry, such as crystalline phases with spin-1/2 fermions. From this ansatz, we prove as a theorem a "fermionic crystalline equivalence principle," as predicted in the physics literature. Using this and the Adams spectral sequence, we compute classifications of some classes of phases with a point group symmetry; in cases where these phases have been studied by other methods, our results agree with the literature.
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spellingShingle Invertible phases for mixed spatial symmetries and the fermionic crystalline equivalence principle
Debray, Arun
Mathematical Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
Algebraic Topology
81T45 (Primary) 57R90 (Secondary)
Freed-Hopkins give a mathematical ansatz for classifying gapped invertible phases of matter with a spatial symmetry in terms of Borel-equivariant generalized homology. We propose a slight generalization of this ansatz to account for cases where the symmetry type mixes nontrivially with the spatial symmetry, such as crystalline phases with spin-1/2 fermions. From this ansatz, we prove as a theorem a "fermionic crystalline equivalence principle," as predicted in the physics literature. Using this and the Adams spectral sequence, we compute classifications of some classes of phases with a point group symmetry; in cases where these phases have been studied by other methods, our results agree with the literature.
title Invertible phases for mixed spatial symmetries and the fermionic crystalline equivalence principle
topic Mathematical Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
Algebraic Topology
81T45 (Primary) 57R90 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02941