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On Triality Defects in 2d CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-02-23 v4

Abstract

We consider the triality fusion category discovered in the c=1c = 1 KT theory \cite{Thorngren:2021yso}. We analyze this fusion category using the tools from the group theoretical fusion category and describe how to compute the simple lines, fusion rules and FF-symbols. We then study the physical implication of this fusion category including deriving the spin selection rule, computing the asymptotic density of states of irreps of the fusion category symmetries, and analyzing its anomaly and constraints on the renormalization group flow. There is another set of FF-symbols for the fusion categories with the same fusion rule known in the literature \cite{teo2015theory} which we compare with, and find the two are different as they lead to different spin selection rules. This gives a complete list of the fusion categories with the same fusion rule by the classification result in \cite{jordan2009classification}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.06077,
  title  = {On Triality Defects in 2d CFT},
  author = {Da-Chuan Lu and Zhengdi Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.06077},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v4, a mistake on the anomaly of triality fusion category is corrected with section 4.3 rewritten thanks to the referee

R2 v1 2026-06-25T01:39:28.467Z