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 -symmetry. In particular, we argue that (3+1)d fermionic topological order with -symmetry correspond to -enriched -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 -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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31 pages