The conjecture that all state-sum Hamiltonian schemas are topological

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A state-sum Hamiltonian schema is obtained from a topological state-sum construction: for a cellulation Δ\Delta of a space manifold YY, the state-sum on Y×IY\times I defines an idempotent map Z~(Y×I)\tilde{Z}(Y\times I), and the Hilbert space is V(Y)=Im⁡(Z~(Y×I))V(Y)=\operatorname{Im}(\tilde{Z}(Y\times I)). The associated local Hamiltonian terms impose admissibility and zero-flux conditions. The conjecture. All state-sum Hamiltonian schemas are topological. If true, every Hamiltonian schema arising from such a state-sum construction would satisfy the defining topological invariance properties. The supplied context explains the construction of the ground subspace and local terms but gives no resolution of this claim.

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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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