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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 GL(2,Z)GL(2,\mathbb{Z}). 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