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Higher central charges and Witt groups

Authors :
Ng, Siu-Hung
Rowell, Eric C.
Wang, Yilong
Zhang, Qing
Source :
Advances in Mathematics Volume 404, Part A, 6 August 2022, 108388
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the definitions of signatures of braided fusion categories, which are proved to be invariants of their Witt equivalence classes. These signature assignments define group homomorphisms on the Witt group. The higher central charges of pseudounitary modular categories can be expressed in terms of these signatures, which are applied to prove that the Ising modular categories have infinitely many square roots in the Witt group. This result is further applied to prove a conjecture of Davydov-Nikshych-Ostrik on the super-Witt group: the torsion subgroup generated by the completely anisotropic s-simple braided fusion categories has infinite rank.<br />Comment: 34 pages. Some typos and an extra reference are removed

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Advances in Mathematics Volume 404, Part A, 6 August 2022, 108388
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2002.03570
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2022.108388