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The Classification of 3+1d Symmetry Enriched Topological Order

Mathematical Physics 2025-09-18 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory Category Theory math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We use a 2-categorical version of (de-)equivariantization to classify (3+1)d topological orders with a finite GG-symmetry. In particular, we argue that (3+1)d fermionic topological order with GG-symmetry correspond to 2SVect\mathbf{2SVect}-enriched GG-crossed braided fusion 2-categories. We then show that the categorical data necessary to define these theories agrees with that arising from a fermionic generalization of the Wang-Wen-Witten construction of bosonic topological theories with GG-symmetry saturating an anomaly. More generally, we also explain how 2-categorical (de-) equivariantization yields a classification of all braided fusion 2-categories.

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@article{arxiv.2509.10603,
  title  = {The Classification of 3+1d Symmetry Enriched Topological Order},
  author = {Thibault D. Décoppet and Matthew Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10603},
  year   = {2025}
}

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