Algebraic Tensor Network Renormalization and Holographic duality
Abstract
Emergent generalized symmetries and the holographic principle play very important roles in understanding quantum phase transitions. In recent years, tensor-network renormalization with generalized symmetry and the corresponding fixed-point tensor formulation have been proposed as a discrete spacetime framework for reformulating conformal field theory. Nevertheless, a complete holographic formulation within this framework is still lacking, and the current formulation does not directly accommodate sector partition functions that are modular covariant in general. In this work, we formulate ℛ-TNR, which builds the categorical constraints of a fusion category ℛ into local tensor spaces and preserves these constraints under Loop-TNR. For suitable choices of ℛ, the initial tensors constructed here flow under ℛ-Loop-TNR to stable gapless fixed points. In the Ising, tricritical Ising, and three-state Potts conformal field theory examples, a broad range of initial parameters leads to the same gapless fixed point in each example. The method resolves conformal towers by anyon sector and yields scaling dimensions, conformal spins, and magnitudes of sector-resolved structure constants with extremely high accuracy compared to previous methods. These results realize a topological bootstrap based on stable symmetry-topological-order in which finite categorical and geometric input, together with an initial tensor that need not be fine-tuned, suffices to recover the infrared conformal field theory and its sector-resolved conformal data.
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BibTeX
@misc{meng2026algebraic,
title = {{Algebraic Tensor Network Renormalization and Holographic duality}},
author = {Chenqi Meng and Tian Lan and Zhengcheng Gu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08787},
eprint = {2610.08787},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08787},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Algebraic Tensor Network Renormalization and Holographic duality
AU - Chenqi Meng
AU - Tian Lan
AU - Zhengcheng Gu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08787
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08787
AB - Emergent generalized symmetries and the holographic principle play very important roles in understanding quantum phase transitions. In recent years, tensor-network renormalization with generalized symmetry and the corresponding fixed-point tensor formulation have been proposed as a discrete spacetime framework for reformulating conformal field theory. Nevertheless, a complete holographic formulation within this framework is still lacking, and the current formulation does not directly accommodate sector partition functions that are modular covariant in general. In this work, we formulate ℛ-TNR, which builds the categorical constraints of a fusion category ℛ into local tensor spaces and preserves these constraints under Loop-TNR. For suitable choices of ℛ, the initial tensors constructed here flow under ℛ-Loop-TNR to stable gapless fixed points. In the Ising, tricritical Ising, and three-state Potts conformal field theory examples, a broad range of initial parameters leads to the same gapless fixed point in each example. The method resolves conformal towers by anyon sector and yields scaling dimensions, conformal spins, and magnitudes of sector-resolved structure constants with extremely high accuracy compared to previous methods. These results realize a topological bootstrap based on stable symmetry-topological-order in which finite categorical and geometric input, together with an initial tensor that need not be fine-tuned, suffices to recover the infrared conformal field theory and its sector-resolved conformal data.
ER -