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We investigate domain walls between 2d gapped phases of Turaev-Viro type topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) by constructing domain wall tube algebras. We begin by analyzing the domain wall tube algebra associated with bimodule…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Zhian Jia , Sheng Tan

A finite tensor category is called pointed if all its simple objects are invertible. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for two pointed semisimple categories to be dual to each other with respect to a module category. Whenever the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-12-19 Deepak Naidu

It is known that the category $\mathscr{C}^H$ of nilpotent weight modules over the quantum group associated with the super Lie algebra $\mathfrak{sl}(2|1)$ is a relative pre-modular $G$-category. Its modified trace enables to define an…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Ngoc Phu Ha

We present commuting projector Hamiltonian realizations of a large class of (3+1)D topological models based on mathematical objects called unitary G-crossed braided fusion categories. This construction comes with a wealth of examples from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Dominic J. Williamson , Zhenghan Wang

Topological qauntum field theory(TQFT) is a very powerful theoretical tool to study topological phases and phase transitions. In $2+1$D, it is well known that the Chern-Simons theory captures all the universal topological data of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-26 Qing-Rui Wang , Meng Cheng , Chenjie Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Modular tensor categories are generalizations of the representation categories of quantum groups at roots of unity axiomatizing the properties necessary to produce 3-dimensional TQFTs. Although other constructions have since been found,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eric C. Rowell

We study the implications of the anyon fusion equation $a\times b=c$ on global properties of $2+1$D topological quantum field theories (TQFTs). Here $a$ and $b$ are anyons that fuse together to give a unique anyon, $c$. As is well known,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Matthew Buican , Linfeng Li , Rajath Radhakrishnan

We are concerned with the center (=quantum double) of tensor categories and prove generalizations of several results proven previously for quantum doubles of Hopf algebras. We consider F-linear tensor categories C with simple unit and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Mueger

We construct a certain `cobordism category' ${\cal D}$ whose morphisms are suitably decorated cobordism classes between similarly decorated closed oriented 1-manifolds, and show that there is essentially a bijection between…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Vijay Kodiyalam , Vishwambhar Pati , V. S. Sunder

We provide a description of adequate categorical data to give a Turaev-Viro type state-sum construct of invariants of 3-manifolds with a system of defects, generalizing the Dijkgraaf-Witten type invariants of our earlier work. We term the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-03-17 I. J. Lee , D. N. Yetter

This paper presents a way to estimate the Heegaard genus of a $3$-manifold using the Turaev-Viro state sum TQFT. The Turaev-Viro state sum TQFT is derived from the modular category associated to the quantum group $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Qing Lan

In this manuscript we review the construction of the Teichm\"{u}ller TQFT in [AK1], upgrading it to a theory dependent on an extra odd integer $N$ using results developed in [AK3]. We also describe how this theory is related with quantum…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen , Simone Marzioni

For an arbitrary simple Lie algebra $\g$ and an arbitrary root of unity $q,$ the closed subsets of the Weyl alcove of the quantum group $U_q(\g)$ are classified. Here a closed subset is a set such that if any two weights in the Weyl alcove…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen F. Sawin

In the quest in constructing conformal field theories (CFT) Jones has discovered a beautiful and deep connection between CFT, Richard Thompson's groups and knot theory. This led to a powerful functorial framework for constructing actions of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Arnaud Brothier

We construct the functional integral of Abelian Chern-Simons theory with toral gauge group $\mathbb T=\mathfrak t/\Lambda \cong U(1)^n$ at level $K$, where $K:\Lambda\times\Lambda\to\mathbb Z$ is an even, integral, nondegenerate symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Daniel Galviz

We propose a novel procedure of assigning a pair of non-unitary topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), TFT$_\pm [\mathcal{T}_{\rm rank \;0}]$, to a (2+1)D interacting $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) $\mathcal{T}_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Dongmin Gang , Sungjoon Kim , Kimyeong Lee , Myungbo Shim , Masahito Yamazaki

We construct topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) and commuting projector Hamiltonians for any 1+1d gapped phases with non-anomalous fusion category symmetries, i.e. finite symmetries that admit SPT phases. The construction is based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Kansei Inamura

In this work, we extend a 2d topological gravity model of Marolf and Maxfield to have as its bulk action any open/closed TQFT obeying Atiyah's axioms. The holographic duals of these topological gravity models are ensembles of 1d topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-08 John G. Gardiner , Stathis Megas

We construct a cohomology theory for oriented links using singular cobordisms and a special type of 2-dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT), categorifying the quantum sl(2) invariant. In particular, we give a description of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-04-18 Carmen Caprau

We specialise the construction of orbifold graph TQFTs introduced in Carqueville et al., arXiv:2101.02482 to Reshetikhin-Turaev defect TQFTs. We explain that the modular fusion category ${\mathcal{C}}_{\mathcal{A}}$ constructed in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nils Carqueville , Vincentas Mulevicius , Ingo Runkel , Gregor Schaumann , Daniel Scherl