Questions tagged [modular-tensor-categories]
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What's the right way to think about "anomalies" in 3d TQFTs?
3d TQFTs constructed from modular tensor categories don't in general give an honest 3d TQFT, instead they have an "anomaly." My vague understanding from Kevin Walker's talks and from skimming Freed-...
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Example for non equivalent rational full CFTs with same modular invariant (partition function)
I am looking for a counter example which shows, that a full rational 2D CFT (with respect to a given chiral subtheory) is not characterized by its modular invariant partition function. People tell me ...
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Is there a non-degenerate quadratic form on every finite abelian group?
Let $G$ be a finite abelian group. A quadratic form on $G$ is a map $q: G \to \mathbb{C}^*$ such that $q(g) = q(g^{-1})$ and the symmetric function $b(g,h):= \frac{q(gh)}{q(g)q(h)}$ is a bicharacter, ...
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Is every premodular category the *full* subcategory of a modular category?
In Müger's article "Conformal Field Theory and Doplicher-Roberts Reconstruction", he defines the "modular closure" of a braided monoidal category. So every braided monoidal category (and therefore ...
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Sum of squares and divisibility
Consider an integer of the form $$N = 1 + \sum_{i=1}^r d_i^2$$ where $d_i \in \mathbb{N}_{\ge 3}$ and $d_i^2$ divides $N$.
Question: Must $r$ be greater than or equal to $9$?
Checking (with SageMath): ...
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Do all 3D TQFTs come from Reshetikhin-Turaev?
The Reshetikhin-Turaev construction take as input a Modular Tensor Category (MTC) and spits out a 3D TQFT. I've been told that the other main construction of 3D TQFTs, the Turaev-Viro State sum ...
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Is the representation category of quantum groups at root of unity visibly unitary?
Let $\mathfrak g$ be a simple Lie algebra.
By taking the specialization at $q^\ell=1$ of a certain integral version¹ of the quantum group $U_q(\mathfrak g)$,
and by considering a certain quotient ...
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Is there a "killing" lemma for G-crossed braided fusion categories?
Edit: I found a serious flaw in the question and my answer, and I had to change a lot. The basic question is still there, but the details are a lot different.
Premodular categories
In braided ...
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How do I calculate the modular fusion category from a given Lie algebra and level in Chern-Simons theory?
In Chern-Simons theory, one has modular fusion categories that are labelled by a Lie algebra and a "level", e.g. $SU(2)_2$ ("$SU(2)$ level $2$").
Physically this modular fusion category describes the ...
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Is there a quotient or exact sequence of symmetric, premodular (ribbon fusion) and modular categories?
In Walker and Wang's article about (3+1)-TQFTs from premodular categories, they say on page 14 that you can take a quotient of a premodular category $\mathcal{C}$ by its symmetric fusion subcategory $...
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Distinct 2D RCFTs with the same underlying MTC
A 2d rational conformal field theory (RCFT) gives rise to a modular tensor category (MTC) equipped with a Frobenius algebra object (see, for example, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204148).
Is there an ...
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Is the rank of an integral MTC an upper bound for the prime factors of its FPdim?
In this post, the abbreviation "MTC" and "FPdim" stand for "Modular Tensor Category" and "Frobenius-Perron dimension".
From [DLN, Theorem II (iii)], where the ...