



@article {1385,
	title = {On the degeneracy of SU(3)k topological phases},
	year = {2010},
	month = {2010/09/01},
	abstract = {<p>The ground state degeneracy of an $SU(N)_k$ topological phase with $n$ quasiparticle excitations is relevant quantity for quantum computation, condensed matter physics, and knot theory. It is an open question to find a closed formula for this degeneracy for any $N \&gt; 2$. Here we present the problem in an explicit combinatorial way and analyze the case N=3. While not finding a complete closed-form solution, we obtain generating functions and solve some special cases.</p>},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0114v1},
	author = {Stephen P. Jordan and Toufik Mansour and Simone Severini}
}
