The conjecture that all gapped fracton schemas are lax-topological

A lax-topological DD-dimensional Hamiltonian schema satisfies TQO0TQO0, TQO1TQO1, and TQO2TQO2, and there exist constants α\alpha and β\beta depending only on DD such that

GSD(HΔ)αeβLD2GSD(H_\Delta)\leq \alpha e^{\beta L^{D-2}}

for every Hamiltonian HΔH_\Delta from the schema on a linear-size LL cellulation Δ\Delta of a space manifold YY. A gapped fracton schema is a Hamiltonian schema describing a gapped fracton phase. The conjecture. All gapped fracton schemas are lax-topological. This would place gapped fracton phases within the stated growth bound, extending the lax-topological framework beyond ordinary topological phases. The surrounding discussion notes that Haah codes saturate the bound, while it remains open whether intermediate maximum growth functions occur between TQFTs and Haah codes.

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Yang Qiu and Zhenghan Wang, “Ground Subspaces of Topological Phases of Matter as Error Correcting Codes”, arXiv:2004.11982 (2020).

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