Discrete torsion defects

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2297-9zbMATH Open1311.81207arXiv1404.7497OpenAlexW2012643323MaRDI QIDQ2018343FDOQ2018343

Authors: I. Brunner, Nils Carqueville, Daniel Plencner 

Publication date: 14 April 2015

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

Abstract: Orbifolding two-dimensional quantum field theories by a symmetry group can involve a choice of discrete torsion. We apply the general formalism of `orbifolding defects' to study and elucidate discrete torsion for topological field theories. In the case of Landau-Ginzburg models only the bulk sector had been studied previously, and we re-derive all known results. We also introduce the notion of `projective matrix factorisations', show how they naturally describe boundary and defect sectors, and we further illustrate the efficiency of the defect-based approach by explicitly computing RR charges. Roughly half of our results are not restricted to Landau-Ginzburg models but hold more generally, for any topological field theory. In particular we prove that for a pivotal bicategory, any two objects of its orbifold completion that have the same base are orbifold equivalent. Equivalently, from any orbifold theory (including those based on nonabelian groups) the original unorbifolded theory can be obtained by orbifolding via the `quantum symmetry defect'.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7497

Recommendations

• Defects and perturbation
• Disclinations in the geometric theory of defects
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3857181
• Asymptotically embedded defects
• Topological discrete kinks
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3896388
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1977000
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4062713
• Configurational forces on material defects
• Disclinations, dislocations, and continuous defects: a reappraisal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

Cites Work

• Pushing forward matrix factorizations
• Orbifold completion of defect bicategories
• Chern characters and Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch formula for matrix factorizations
• Defects and bulk perturbations of boundary Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds
• Orbifolds and topological defects
• On the relation between open and closed topological strings
• TFT construction of RCFT correlators. III: Simple currents
• Orbifold equivalent potentials
• Adjunctions and defects in Landau-Ginzburg models
• Computing Khovanov-Rozansky homology and defect fusion
• Modular invariance and discrete torsion on orbifolds
• Field theories with defects and the centre functor
• Fractional Branes in Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds
• Stability of Landau-Ginzburg branes
• B-type defects in Landau-Ginzburg models
• TFT construction of RCFT correlators. I: Partition functions
• Discrete torsion orbifolds and D-branes
• D-branes on orbifolds with discrete torsion and topological obstruction
• A note on the equivalence of Vafa's and Douglas's picture of discrete torsion

Cited In (28)

• Matrix factorizations, Reality and Knörrer periodicity
• Orbifold equivalence: structure and new examples
• Orbifolds of \(n\)-dimensional defect TQFTs
• Orbifolds by 2-groups and decomposition
• Noninvertible anomalies in \(\mathrm{SU}(N)\times\mathrm{U}(1)\) gauge theories
• Defects in \(G/H\) coset, \(G/G\) topological field theory and discrete Fourier-Mukai transform
• Symmetries and strings of adjoint \(\mathrm{QCD}_2\)
• Generalized global symmetries
• Higher gauging and non-invertible condensation defects
• Fusion surface models: 2+1d lattice models from fusion 2-categories
• Non-invertible symmetries and LSM-type constraints on a tensor product Hilbert space
• Fermionization of fusion category symmetries in 1+1 dimensions
• Topological defects in K3 sigma models
• Realizing IR theories by projections in the UV
• Symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy, spectra \& boundary conformal field theory
• Notes on generalized global symmetries in QFT
• On finite symmetries and their gauging in two dimensions
• Orbifolds of Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs
• Matrix factorisations for rational boundary conditions by defect fusion
• Self-duality under gauging a non-invertible symmetry
• On reconstructing finite gauge group from fusion rules
• Notes on gauging noninvertible symmetries. Part I. Multiplicity-free cases
• The algebra of discrete torsion.
• Fibonacci-type orbifold data in Ising modular categories
• Topological field theories and symmetry protected topological phases with fusion category symmetries
• Topological defect lines and renormalization group flows in two dimensions
• Non-invertible duality defect and non-commutative fusion algebra
• On lattice models of gapped phases with fusion category symmetries

This page was built for publication: Discrete torsion defects

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2018343)