Metaplectic categories, gauging and property F

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1601085623MaRDI QIDQ2223778zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Gustafson, Yuze Ruan, Eric C. Rowell

Publication date 1 February 2021

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00698, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1601085623

zbMATH Keywords

modular tensor categoriesproperty \(F\) conjecturesymmetry gauging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braided monoidal categories and ribbon categories (18M15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Abstract: $N$-Metaplectic categories, unitary modular categories with the same fusion rules as $SO(N{)}_2$, are prototypical examples of weakly integral modular categories. As such, a conjecture of the second author would imply that images of the braid group representations associated with metaplectic categories are finite groups, i.e. have property $F$. While it was recently shown that $SO(N{)}_2$ itself has property $F$, proving property $F$ for the more general class of metaplectic modular categories is an open problem. We verify this conjecture for $N$-metaplectic modular categories when $N$ is odd, exploiting their classification and enumeration to relate them to $SO(N{)}_2$. In another direction, we prove that when $N$ is divisible by $8$ the $N$-metaplectic categories have $3$ non-trivial bosons, and the boson condensation procedure applied to 2 of these bosons yields $fracN4$-metaplectic categories. Otherwise stated: any $8k$-metaplectic category is a $mathbb{Z}_2$-gauging of a $2k$-metaplectic category, so that the $N$ even metaplectic categories lie towers of $mathbb{Z}_2$-gaugings commencing with $2k$- or $4k$-metaplectic categories with $k$ odd.

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