Examples of Invertible Gauging via Orbifold Data, Zesting, and Equivariantisation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-05-19 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We study the gauging of invertible symmetries, particularly in 3 dimensions, using equivariantisation, -crossed braided zesting, and the generalised orbifold construction. We discuss how these methods are related and illustrate them in various examples. We cover all -symmetries in Dijkgraaf--Witten -gauge theory , the -symmetries described by Tambara--Yamagami categories, and obstructions to gauging the central symmetry in Chern--Simons -gauge theory. We introduce zested orbifold data for symmetries related by zesting and show that the two associated orbifold data are Morita-equivalent, i.e.\ they have the same underlying surface defect.
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@article{arxiv.2605.16942,
title = {Examples of Invertible Gauging via Orbifold Data, Zesting, and Equivariantisation},
author = {Benjamin Haake},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16942},
year = {2026}
}
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52 pages