Anomaly indicator of rotation symmetry in (3+1)D topological order
classification
❄️ cond-mat.str-el
hep-th
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topologicalrotationanomalyindicatorphasessymmetrydiscreteexcitations
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We examine (3+1)D topological ordered phases with $C_k$ rotation symmetry. We show that some rotation symmetric (3+1)D topological orders are anomalous, in the sense that they cannot exist in standalone (3+1)D systems, but only exist on the surface of (4+1)D SPT phases. For (3+1)D discrete gauge theories, we propose anomaly indicator that can diagnose the $\mathbb{Z}_k$ valued rotation anomaly. Since (3+1)D topological phases support both point-like and loop-like excitations, the indicator is expressed in terms of the symmetry properties of point and loop-like excitations, and topological data of (3+1)D discrete gauge theories.
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