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Boundary symmetries of (2+1)D topological orders

Quantum Algebra 2024-08-21 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

We elaborate an algebraic framework for describing internal topological symmetries of gapped boundaries of (2+1)D topological orders. We present a categorical obstruction to the coherence of bulk group symmetry and boundary symmetries in terms of liftings of categorical actions on the bulk theory to a certain 2-group of boundary symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.2408.10832,
  title  = {Boundary symmetries of (2+1)D topological orders},
  author = {Kylan Schatz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10832},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages, 11 figures. Comments welcome