The congruence-kernel conjecture for super-modular categories

Let B\mathcal{B} be a super-modular category of rank 2k2k, and let S^\hat{S} and T^2\hat{T}^2 be the corresponding matrices. Let Γθ=s,t2<SL(2,Z)\Gamma_\theta=\langle\mathfrak{s},\mathfrak{t}^2\rangle<\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z}) be the spin mapping class group of the torus with spin structure (A,A)(A,A), and let πk\pi_k denote passage to PSU(k)\operatorname{PSU}(k). The congruence-kernel conjecture. The projective representation

ρ^:ΓθPSU(k),ρ^(s)=πk(S^),ρ^(t2)=πk(T^2)\hat{\rho}:\Gamma_\theta\longrightarrow \operatorname{PSU}(k),\qquad \hat{\rho}(\mathfrak{s})=\pi_k(\hat{S}),\quad \hat{\rho}(\mathfrak{t}^2)=\pi_k(\hat{T}^2)

has kernel a congruence subgroup. If true, the image ρ^(Γθ)\hat{\rho}(\Gamma_\theta) is finite; the level of the kernel is not known in general.

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Parsa Bonderson, Eric C. Rowell, Qing Zhang and Zhenghan Wang, “Congruence Subgroups and Super-Modular Categories”, arXiv:1704.02041 (2017).

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