Parallel transportation conjecture for immersed annuli

Let L{\mathcal L} be an immersed annulus, let CL{\mathcal C}_{\mathcal L} be the superselection sectors detected by it, and let dμd_\mu be the quantum dimension of μ\mu. Transportation along L{\mathcal L} is parallel when I(L)=C|{\mathcal I}({\mathcal L})|=|{\mathcal C}|, where I(L){\mathcal I}({\mathcal L}) is the set of sectors obtained by transportation and C{\mathcal C} is the set of anyon types. Parallel transportation conjecture. If transportation along L{\mathcal L} is parallel, then there exists μCL\mu\in{\mathcal C}_{\mathcal L} with

dμ=1.d_\mu=1.

The converse implication is established in the paper, so this conjecture is the remaining direction of the stated equivalence between parallel transportation and the existence of an Abelian sector.

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Bowen Shi, “Immersed figure-8 annuli and anyons”, arXiv:2309.17155 (2025).

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