Weak in the boundary: How weak SPT phases spoil anomaly matching
Abstract
We show how weak symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases on systems with a boundary are not in 1-to-1 correspondence with weak SPT phases on fully periodic systems, breaking the standard anomaly inflow interpretation of SPT phases. We further discuss the implications for the crystalline equivalence principle (CEP).
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