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Category of SET orders

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-03-20 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We propose the representation principle to study physical systems with a given symmetry. In the context of symmetry enriched topological orders, we give the appropriate representation category, the category of SET orders, which include SPT orders and symmetry breaking orders as special cases. For fusion n-category symmetries, we show that the category of SET orders encodes almost all information about the interplay between symmetry and topological orders, in a natural and canonical way. These information include defects and boundaries of SET orders, symmetry charges, explicit and spontaneous symmetry breaking, stacking of SET orders, gauging of generalized symmetry, as well as quantum currents (SymTFT or symmetry TO). We also provide a detailed categorical algorithm to compute the generalized gauging. In particular, we proved that gauging is always reversible, as a special type of Morita-equivalence. The explicit data for ungauging, the inverse to gauging, is given.

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@article{arxiv.2312.15958,
  title  = {Category of SET orders},
  author = {Tian Lan and Gen Yue and Longye Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.15958},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

44 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. Two new appendices and clarification on ordinary gauging, twisted gauging, and partial gauging are added

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