On dimensions of (2+1)D abelian bosonic topological systems on non-orientable manifolds
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-01-21 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We give a framework to describe abelian bosonic topological systems with parity symmetry on a torus in terms of the projective representation of . However, this information alone does not guarantee that we can assign Hilbert spaces to non-orientable surfaces in a way compatible with the gluing axiom of topological quantum field theory. Here, we show that we may assign Hilbert spaces with integer dimensions to non-orientable surfaces in the case of abelian bosonic topological systems with time-reversal symmetry, which can be seen as a necessary condition for the existence of topological quantum field theories.
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@article{arxiv.2502.13532,
title = {On dimensions of (2+1)D abelian bosonic topological systems on non-orientable manifolds},
author = {Ippo Orii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13532},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
22 pages; v2: minor corrections. Published version