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Constructing modular categories from orbifold data

Quantum Algebra 2020-02-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In Carqueville et al., arXiv:1809.01483, the notion of an orbifold datum A\mathbb{A} in a modular fusion category C\mathcal{C} was introduced as part of a generalised orbifold construction for Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs. In this paper, given a simple orbifold datum A\mathbb{A} in C\mathcal{C}, we introduce a ribbon category CA\mathcal{C}_{\mathbb{A}} and show that it is again a modular fusion category. The definition of CA\mathcal{C}_{\mathbb{A}} is motivated by properties of Wilson lines in the generalised orbifold. We analyse two examples in detail: (i) when A\mathbb{A} is given by a simple commutative Δ\Delta-separable Frobenius algebra AA in C\mathcal{C}; (ii) when A\mathbb{A} is an orbifold datum in C=Vect\mathcal{C} = \operatorname{Vect}, built from a spherical fusion category S\mathcal{S}. We show that in case (i), CA\mathcal{C}_{\mathbb{A}} is ribbon-equivalent to the category of local modules of AA, and in case (ii), to the Drinfeld centre of S\mathcal{S}. The category CA\mathcal{C}_{\mathbb{A}} thus unifies these two constructions into a single algebraic setting.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00663,
  title  = {Constructing modular categories from orbifold data},
  author = {Vincentas Mulevicius and Ingo Runkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00663},
  year   = {2020}
}

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58 pages

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