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Reconstruction of modular data from $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ representations

Quantum Algebra 2023-07-18 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

Modular data is the most significant invariant of a modular tensor category. We pursue an approach to the classification of modular data of modular tensor categories by building the modular SS and TT matrices directly from irreducible representations of SL2(Z/nZ)SL_2(\mathbb{Z}/n \mathbb{Z}). We discover and collect many conditions on the SL2(Z/nZ)SL_2(\mathbb{Z}/n \mathbb{Z}) representations to identify those that correspond to some modular data. To arrive at concrete matrices from representations, we also develop methods that allow us to select the proper basis of the SL2(Z/nZ)SL_2(\mathbb{Z}/n \mathbb{Z}) representations so that they have the form of modular data. We apply this technique to the classification of rank-66 modular tensor categories, obtaining a classification up to modular data. Most of the calculations can be automated using a computer algebraic system, which can be employed to classify modular data of higher rank modular tensor categories.

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@article{arxiv.2203.14829,
  title  = {Reconstruction of modular data from $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ representations},
  author = {Siu-Hung Ng and Eric C Rowell and Zhenghan Wang and Xiao-Gang Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14829},
  year   = {2023}
}

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78pp Latex and 271pp of supplementary materials

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