Meanings
plural equivariantizations
- countableuncountablemathematicsconversion to equivariant form
Roughly, given a UMC with a symmetry group G, gauging is a 2-step process: first extend the UMC to a G-crossed braided fusion category and then take the equivariantization of the resulting category.
2015, Shawn X. Cui, César Galindo, Julia Yael Plavnik, Zhenghan Wang, “On Gauging Symmetry of Modular Categories”, in arXiv
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