Non-Invertible Anyon Condensation and Level-Rank Dualities
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 ii) a new presentation of a series of points on the orbifold branch of conformal field theories as , and iii) a new dual form of as arising from conformal embeddings, where and 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