Fermionic finite-group gauge theories and interacting symmetric/crystalline orders via cobordisms

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03671-6MaRDI QIDQ2184740zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Meng Guo, Kantaro Ohmori, Pavel Putrov, Zheyan Wan, Juven Wang

Publication date 29 May 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11959

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Other types of cobordism (57R90) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Particle exchange symmetries in quantum theory (general) (81V72) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

Abstract: We formulate a family of spin Topological Quantum Filed Theories (spin-TQFTs) as fermionic generalization of bosonic Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFTs. They are obtained by gauging $G$-equivariant invertible spin-TQFTs, or, in physics language, gauging the interacting fermionic Symmetry Protected Topological states (SPTs) with a finite group $G$ symmetry. We use the fact that the latter are classified by Pontryagin duals to spin-bordism groups of the classifying space $BG$. We also consider unoriented analogues, that is $G$-equivariant invertible pin${}^{p}m$-TQFTs (fermionic time-reversal-SPTs) and their gauging. We compute these groups for various examples of abelian $G$ using Adams spectral sequence and describe all corresponding TQFTs via certain bordism invariants in dimensions 3, 4, and other. This gives explicit formulas for the partition functions of spin-TQFTs on closed manifolds with possible extended operators inserted. The results also provide explicit classification of 't Hooft anomalies of fermionic QFTs with finite abelian group symmetries in one dimension lower. We construct new anomalous boundary deconfined spin-TQFTs (surface fermionic topological orders). We explore SPT and SET (symmetry enriched topologically ordered) states, and crystalline SPTs protected by space-group (e.g. translation $mathbbZ$) or point-group (e.g. reflection, inversion or rotation $C_m$) symmetries, via the layer-stacking construction.

Review text

The paper gives a research on many kinds of spin Topological Quantum Field Theories (spin-TQFTs) based on the interacting fermionic Symmetry Protected Topological states with a finite group \(G\) symmetry. The works are comprehensive research on this topic. For example, the research provide explicit classification of 't Hooft anomalies of fermionic QFTs in one dimension lower. They also construct new anomalous boundary spin-TQFTs. In general, the results help with the understanding of the spin TQFTs.

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