Internal-symmetry homotopy classification conjecture for topological phases

Let GG be an internal symmetry group, let BGBG be its classifying space, and let Θd\Theta_d denote the space classifying dd-dimensional topological phases. The classifying space is, up to homotopy equivalence, BG=EG/GBG=EG/G, where EGEG is any contractible space with a free action of GG.

Internal-symmetry classification conjecture. The classification of SPT or SET topological phases in dd dimensions with internal symmetry GG is given by homotopy classes of maps

f:BGΘd.f:BG\to\Theta_d.

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Dominic V. Else and Ryan Thorngren, “Crystalline topological phases as defect networks”, arXiv:1810.10539 (2019).

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