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Zesting produces modular isotopes and explains their topological invariants

Quantum Algebra 2024-10-14 v2 Mathematical Physics Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

We show that the ribbon zesting construction can produce modular isotopes -- different modular fusion categories with the same modular data. The result relies on the observation that the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of framed links associated to a ribbon fusion category satisfy a factorization property under zesting. This gives a new perspective on using topological invariants to classify topological order in light of modular data not being a complete invariant.

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@article{arxiv.2107.11374,
  title  = {Zesting produces modular isotopes and explains their topological invariants},
  author = {Colleen Delaney and Sung Kim and Julia Plavnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.11374},
  year   = {2024}
}