The property F conjecture for braided fusion categories

Let \mcC\mcC be a braided fusion category. It has property F if the braid-group image ρX(\mcBn)\rho_X(\mcB_n) is finite for every object X\mcCX\in\mcC and every nn; equivalently, the associated braid-group representations on the centralizer algebras End\mcC(Xn)\operatorname{End}_{\mcC}(X^{\otimes n}) have finite image.

Property F conjecture. The category \mcC\mcC has property F if, and only if,

FPdim(\mcC)Z,\operatorname{FPdim}(\mcC)\in\mathbb Z,

that is, \mcC\mcC is weakly integral.

This conjecture proposes a precise connection between finiteness of braid-group representations, relevant to topological quantum computation, and weak integrality of the Frobenius–Perron dimension. Its resolution status is not specified in the supplied text.

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Paul Bruillard, Paul Gustafson, Julia Yael Plavnik and Eric Carson Rowell, “Dimension as a quantum statistic and the classification of metaplectic categories”, arXiv:1710.10284 (2018).

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