Abstract

The aim of the paper is twofold. First, we show that a quantum field theory A living on the line and having a group G of inner symmetries gives rise to a category G−LocA of twisted representations. This category is a braided crossed G-category in the sense of Turaev [60]. Its degree zero subcategory is braided and equivalent to the usual representation category Rep A. Combining this with [29], where Rep A was proven to be modular for a nice class of rational conformal models, and with the construction of invariants of G-manifolds in [60], we obtain an equivariant version of the following chain of constructions: Rational CFT ❀ modular category ❀ 3-manifold invariant. Secondly, we study the relation between G−LocA and the braided (in the usual sense) representation category Rep AG of the orbifold theory AG. We prove the equivalence Rep AG ≃ (G−LocA) G, which is a rigorous implementation of the insight that one needs to take the twisted representations of A into account in order to determine Rep AG. In the opposite direction we have G−LocA ≃ Rep AG ⋊ S, where S ⊂ Rep AG is the full

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