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

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03671-6zbMATH Open1479.81064arXiv1812.11959OpenAlexW2907528256WikidataQ126294474 ScholiaQ126294474MaRDI QIDQ2184740FDOQ2184740

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)

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.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) 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) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Other types of cobordism (57R90) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74) Particle exchange symmetries in quantum theory (general) (81V72)

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