The Witt-group decomposition conjecture for trivial syllepsis

Let AA be a finite abelian group. Write Witt(A,triv)\mathcal{W}itt(A,\mathsf{triv}) for the Witt group associated to AA with trivial syllepsis, let Witt\mathcal{W}itt denote the ordinary Witt group, and let A[2]A[2] denote the relevant 2-stage construction on AA. Witt-group decomposition conjecture. There is an isomorphism of groups

Witt(A,triv)WittH4(A[2];C×).\mathcal{W}itt(A,\mathsf{triv})\cong \mathcal{W}itt \oplus H^4(A[2];\mathbb{C}^{\times}).

This conjecture is motivated by the observation that Witt spaces commute with equivariantizations. The supplied text gives no resolution status.

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Lakshya Bhardwaj, Thibault Décoppet, Sakura Schafer-Nameki and Matthew Yu, “Fusion 3-Categories for Duality Defects”, arXiv:2408.13302 (2025).

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