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Invertible phases for mixed spatial symmetries and the fermionic crystalline equivalence principle

Mathematical Physics 2026-02-04 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Topology math.MP

Abstract

Freed-Hopkins give a mathematical ansatz for classifying gapped invertible phases of matter with a spatial symmetry in terms of Borel-equivariant generalized homology. We propose a slight generalization of this ansatz to account for cases where the symmetry type mixes nontrivially with the spatial symmetry, such as crystalline phases with spin-1/2 fermions. From this ansatz, we prove as a theorem a "fermionic crystalline equivalence principle," as predicted in the physics literature. Using this and the Adams spectral sequence, we compute classifications of some classes of phases with a point group symmetry; in cases where these phases have been studied by other methods, our results agree with the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2102.02941,
  title  = {Invertible phases for mixed spatial symmetries and the fermionic crystalline equivalence principle},
  author = {Arun Debray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02941},
  year   = {2026}
}

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105 pages. Comments welcome! v3: a few more errors have been corrected