Enriched string-net models and their excitations

DOI10.22331/Q-2024-03-28-1301MaRDI QIDQ6510229arXivFDO

Authors David A. Green, Peter Huston, David Penneys, Anup Poudel, Sean Sanford

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Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.22331/Q-2024-03-28-1301

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fusion categories, modular tensor categories, modular functors (18M20) String diagrams and graphical calculi (18M30) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Anyons (81V27)

Abstract: Boundaries of Walker-Wang models have been used to construct commuting projector models which realize chiral unitary modular tensor categories (UMTCs) as boundary excitations. Given a UMTC $mathcalA$ representing the Witt class of an anomaly, the article [arXiv:2208.14018] gave a commuting projector model associated to an $mathcalA$-enriched unitary fusion category $mathcalX$ on a 2D boundary of the 3D Walker-Wang model associated to $mathcalA$. That article claimed that the boundary excitations were given by the enriched center/M"uger centralizer $Z^{m}athcalA(mathcalX)$ of $mathcalA$ in $Z(mathcalX)$. In this article, we give a rigorous treatment of this 2D boundary model, and we verify this assertion using topological quantum field theory (TQFT) techniques, including skein modules and a certain semisimple algebra whose representation category describes boundary excitations. We also use TQFT techniques to show the 3D bulk point excitations of the Walker-Wang bulk are given by the M"uger center $Z_2(mathcalA)$, and we construct bulk-to-boundary hopping operators $Z_2(mathcalA)o{Z}^{mathcalA}(mathcalX)$ reflecting how the UMTC of boundary excitations $Z^{mathcalA}(mathcalX)$ is symmetric-braided enriched in $Z_2(mathcalA)$. This article also includes a self-contained comprehensive review of the Levin-Wen string net model from a unitary tensor category viewpoint, as opposed to the skeletal $6j$ symbol viewpoint.

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