Congruence Subgroups and Super-Modular Categories

DOI10.2140/PJM.2018.296.257arXiv1704.02041MaRDI QIDQ6285249FDOQ6285249

Authors: Parsa Bonderson, Eric C. Rowell, Zhenghan Wang, Qing Zhang 

Publication date: 6 April 2017

Abstract: A super-modular category is a unitary pre-modular category with M"uger center equivalent to the symmetric unitary category of super-vector spaces. Super-modular categories are important alternatives to modular categories as any unitary pre-modular category is the equivariantization of a either a modular or super-modular category. Physically, super-modular categories describe universal properties of quasiparticles in fermionic topological phases of matter. In general one does not have a representation of the modular group $mathrmSL(2,mathbbZ)$ associated to a super-modular category, but it is possible to obtain a representation of the (index 3) $heta$-subgroup: $Gamm{a}_{h}eta<mathrmSL(2,mathbbZ)$. We study the image of this representation and conjecture a super-modular analogue of the Ng-Schauenburg Congruence Subgroup Theorem for modular categories, namely that the kernel of the $Gamm{a}_{h}eta$ representation is a congruence subgroup. We prove this conjecture for any super-modular category that is a subcategory of modular category of twice its dimension, i.e. admitting a minimal modular extension. Conjecturally, every super-modular category admits (precisely 16) minimal modular extensions and, therefore, our conjecture would be a consequence.

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