Mutual Influence of Symmetries and Topological Field Theories

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Main Authors: Teixeira, Daniel, Yu, Matthew
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author Teixeira, Daniel
Yu, Matthew
author_facet Teixeira, Daniel
Yu, Matthew
contents We study how the fusion 2-category symmetry of a fermionic (2+1)d QFT can be affected when one allows for stacking with TQFTs to be an equivalence relation for QFTs. Focusing on a simple kind of fermionic fusion 2-category described purely by group theoretical data, our results reveal that by allowing for stacking with $\mathrm{Spin}(n)_1$ as an equivalence relation enables a finite set of inequivalent modifications to the original fusion 2-categorical-symmetry. To put our results in a broader context, we relate the order of the symmetry modifications to the image of a map between groups of minimal nondegenerate extensions, and to the tangential structure set by the initial categorical symmetry on the background manifold for the QFT.
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spellingShingle Mutual Influence of Symmetries and Topological Field Theories
Teixeira, Daniel
Yu, Matthew
Mathematical Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Algebra
18M20, 18N10
We study how the fusion 2-category symmetry of a fermionic (2+1)d QFT can be affected when one allows for stacking with TQFTs to be an equivalence relation for QFTs. Focusing on a simple kind of fermionic fusion 2-category described purely by group theoretical data, our results reveal that by allowing for stacking with $\mathrm{Spin}(n)_1$ as an equivalence relation enables a finite set of inequivalent modifications to the original fusion 2-categorical-symmetry. To put our results in a broader context, we relate the order of the symmetry modifications to the image of a map between groups of minimal nondegenerate extensions, and to the tangential structure set by the initial categorical symmetry on the background manifold for the QFT.
title Mutual Influence of Symmetries and Topological Field Theories
topic Mathematical Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Algebra
18M20, 18N10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06304