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Spin-cobordisms, surgeries and fermionic modular bootstrap

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-08-02 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics Algebraic Topology Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

We consider general fermionic quantum field theories with a global finite group symmetry GG, focusing on the case of 2-dimensions and torus spacetime. The modular transformation properties of the family of partition functions with different backgrounds is determined by the 't Hooft anomaly of GG and fermion parity. For a general possibly non-abelian GG we provide a method to determine the modular transformations directly from the bulk 3d invertible topological quantum field theory (iTQFT) corresponding to the anomaly by inflow. We also describe a method of evaluating the character map from the real representation ring of GG to the group which classifies anomalies. Physically the value of the map is given by the anomaly of free fermions in a given representation. We assume classification of the anomalies/iTQFTs by spin-cobordisms. As a byproduct, for all abelian symmetry groups GG, we provide explicit combinatorial expressions for corresponding spin-bordism invariants in terms of surgery representation of arbitrary closed spin 3-manifolds. We work out the case of G=Z2G=\mathbb{Z}_2 in detail, and, as an application, we consider the constraints that 't Hooft anomaly puts on the spectrum of the infrared conformal field theory.

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@article{arxiv.2106.16247,
  title  = {Spin-cobordisms, surgeries and fermionic modular bootstrap},
  author = {Andrea Grigoletto and Pavel Putrov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.16247},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

86 pages, 27 figures. v2: minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-24T03:46:40.855Z