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We discuss bosonization and Fermionic Short-Range-Entangled (FSRE) phases of matter in one, two, and three spatial dimensions, emphasizing the physical meaning of the cohomological parameters which label such phases and the connection with higher-form symmetries. We propose a classification scheme for fermionic SPT phases in three spatial dimensions with an arbitrary finite point symmetry G. It generalizes the supercohomology of Gu and Wen. We argue that the most general such phase can be obtained from a bosonic “shadow” by condensing both fermionic particles and strings.
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Kapustin, A., Thorngren, R. Fermionic SPT phases in higher dimensions and bosonization. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 80 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2017)080
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