Fidkowski's conjecture on invertible phases entangled by QCAs

Let YY be the gravitational topological response associated with an invertible phase, and let a QCA be an operation that entangles this phase. The phase has a nontrivial partition function if its partition function is not equal to 11 on some orientable manifold.

Fidkowski's conjecture. YY is a nontrivial QCA if the invertible phase it entangles has a nontrivial partition function on some orientable manifold.

This conjecture is used to determine when gravitational topological responses cause the lattice operations SS and TT to mix with a nontrivial QCA. Its general status is not specified in the source.

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Carolyn Zhang and Po-Shen Hsin, “Quantum Cellular Automata from Kramers-Wannier Dualities and Modular Relations”, arXiv:2607.21728 (2026).

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