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Symmetry Protected Topological phases and Generalized Cohomology

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arxiv 1712.07950 v2 pith:5PME3RNI submitted 2017-12-21 hep-th cond-mat.str-elmath.AT

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We discuss the classification of SPT phases in condensed matter systems. We review Kitaev's argument that SPT phases are classified by a generalized cohomology theory, valued in the spectrum of gapped physical systems. We propose a concrete description of that spectrum and of the corresponding cohomology theory. We compare our proposal to pre-existing constructions in the literature.

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