On metaplectic modular categories and their applications

DOI10.1007/s00220-014-2044-7zbMath1305.81105arXiv1303.1202MaRDI QIDQ2509618

Zhenghan Wang, Chetan Nayak, Matthew B. Hastings

Publication date: 29 July 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1202

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory; quantum group; representation; link invariants; modular categories; braid group; quantum dimension; metaplectic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81P68: Quantum computation

20F36: Braid groups; Artin groups

81T05: Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras

81T45: Topological field theories in quantum mechanics

57R56: Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology)

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