Haag duality and the distal split property for cones in the toric code
Pieter Naaijkens
June 21, 2011
We prove that Haag duality holds for cones in the toric code model. That is,
for a cone Lambda, the algebra R_Lambda of observables localized in Lambda and
the algebra R_{Lambda^c} of observables localized in the complement Lambda^c
generate each other's commutant as von Neumann algebras. Moreover, we show that
the distal split property holds: if Lambda_1 \subset Lambda_2 are two cones
whose boundaries are well separated, there is a Type I factor N such that
R_{Lambda_1} \subset N \subset R_{Lambda_2}. We demonstrate this by explicitly
constructing N.
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