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Non-Invertible Anyon Condensation and Level-Rank Dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-30 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We derive new dualities of topological quantum field theories in three spacetime dimensions that generalize the familiar level-rank dualities of Chern-Simons gauge theories. The key ingredient in these dualities is non-abelian anyon condensation, which is a gauging operation for topological lines with non-group-like i.e. non-invertible fusion rules. We find that, generically, dualities involve such non-invertible anyon condensation and that this unifies a variety of exceptional phenomena in topological field theories and their associated boundary rational conformal field theories, including conformal embeddings, and Maverick cosets (those where standard algorithms for constructing a coset model fail.) We illustrate our discussion in a variety of isolated examples as well as new infinite series of dualities involving non-abelian anyon condensation including: i) a new description of the parafermion theory as (SU(N)2×Spin(N)4)/AN,(SU(N)_{2} \times Spin(N)_{-4})/\mathcal{A}_{N}, ii) a new presentation of a series of points on the orbifold branch of c=1c=1 conformal field theories as (Spin(2N)2×Spin(N)2×Spin(N)2)/BN(Spin(2N)_{2} \times Spin(N)_{-2} \times Spin(N)_{-2})/\mathcal{B}_{N}, and iii) a new dual form of SU(2)NSU(2)_{N} as (USp(2N)1×SO(N)4)/CN(USp(2N)_{1} \times SO(N)_{-4})/\mathcal{C}_{N} arising from conformal embeddings, where AN,BN,\mathcal{A}_{N}, \mathcal{B}_{N}, and CN\mathcal{C}_{N} are appropriate collections of gauged non-invertible bosons.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16317,
  title  = {Non-Invertible Anyon Condensation and Level-Rank Dualities},
  author = {Clay Cordova and Diego García-Sepúlveda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16317},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

85 pages, 5 figures, 18 tables. v3: minor corrections and added references