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A remark about the anomalies of cyclic holomorphic permutation orbifolds

Mathematical Physics 2019-01-01 v1 math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Using a result of Longo and Xu, we show that the anomaly arising from a cyclic permutation orbifold of order 3 of a holomorphic conformal net A\mathcal A with central charge c=8kc=8k depends on the "gravitational anomaly" k(mod3)k\pmod 3. In particular, the conjecture that holomorphic permutation orbifolds are non-anomalous and therefore a stronger conjecture of M\"uger about braided crossed SnS_n-categories arising from permutation orbifolds of completely rational conformal nets are wrong. More general, we show that cyclic permutations of order nn are non-anomalous if and only if 3n3\nmid n or 24c24|c. We also show that all cyclic permutation gaugings of Rep(A)\mathrm{Rep}(\mathcal A) arise from conformal nets.

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@article{arxiv.1812.11910,
  title  = {A remark about the anomalies of cyclic holomorphic permutation orbifolds},
  author = {Marcel Bischoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11910},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures. Extension of an unpublished note. Comments are welcome!