Computing Defects Associated to Bounded Domain Wall Structures: The \operatorname{Vec}(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}) Case

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AB7D60zbMATH Open1514.81234arXiv1901.08069MaRDI QIDQ6312947FDOQ6312947

Authors: Jacob C. Bridgeman, Daniel Barter

Publication date: 23 January 2019

Abstract: A domain wall structure consists of a planar graph with faces labeled by fusion categories/topological phases. Edges are labeled by bimodules/domain walls. When the vertices are labeled by point defects we get a compound defect. We present an algorithm, called the domain wall structure algorithm, for computing the compound defect. We apply this algorithm to show that the emph{bimodule associator}, related to the

O_{3}

obstruction of [Etingof et al., Quantum Topol. 1, 209 (2010), arXiv:0909.3140], is trivial for all domain walls of

o p e r a t o r n a m e V e c (m a t h b b Z / p m a t h b b Z)

. In the language of this paper, the ground states of the Levin-Wen model are compound defects. We use this to define a generalization of the Levin-Wen model with domain walls and point defects. The domain wall structure algorithm can be used to compute the ground states of these generalized Levin-Wen type models.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Fusion categories, modular tensor categories, modular functors (18M20)

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