The universal categorical spectrum conjecture for topological stabilizer codes
The universal categorical spectrum conjecture for topological stabilizer codes
Let be a proposed categorical spectrum of topological stabilizer codes, with its degree- component, and let denote the unitary QCA spectrum at a point. Write for the category of categorical spectra and for commutative algebra objects. Universal categorical spectrum conjecture. There is a categorical spectrum of topological stabilizer codes such that
for all , whose core is , and such that for every other categorical spectrum there is a natural-in- isomorphism
This conjecture seeks a universal target category for topological stabilizer codes whose invertible part recovers the QCA spectrum. The proposed universal property would organize stabilizer codes in all dimensions and relate their bulk-boundary structure to the classification of QCAs.
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Bowen Yang and Matthew Yu, “The Classification of Pauli Stabilizer Codes: A Lattice and Continuum Treatise”, arXiv:2604.24847 (2026).
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