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After reading a few more articles, I think I may have an answer to my own question here.
In the case of Kitaev's toric code, my above reasoning is true. This is due to the fact that all allowed rules for the strings (especially, the loop contraction rule; see this article for the rules). However, for more general string-net liquids, the two configurations ...
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