Anomaly cascade for fermionic symmetry actions
Anomaly cascade for fermionic symmetry actions
Let be a super modular tensor category with fermionic symmetry data , and let be a unitary modular tensor category that is a minimal modular extension of . Let denote the layers in total degree of the Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence for the relevant twisted spin bordism theory. The anomaly cascade. The anomaly of the super modular tensor category has four layers: the first, valued in , is the obstruction to giving the modular extension time-reversal symmetry; the second, valued in , is the obstruction to extending to ; the third, valued in , is the obstruction to extending the symmetry-fractionalization data ; and the fourth, valued in , is the anomaly of the extended -action on . This describes the four obstruction layers governing fermionic symmetry anomalies through a minimal modular extension. The source presents this as an interpretation attributed to Bulmash and Barkeshli and does not state a resolution.
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Arun Debray, Weicheng Ye and Matthew Yu, “Bosonization and Anomaly Indicators of (2+1)-D Fermionic Topological Orders”, arXiv:2312.13341 (2025).
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