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An Algebraic Theory of Gapped Domain Wall Partons

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-07-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra Quantum Physics

Abstract

The entanglement bootstrap program has generated new quantum numbers associated with degrees of freedom living on gapped domain walls between topological phases in two dimensions. Most fundamental among these are the so-called "parton" quantum numbers, which give rise to a zoo of composite sectors. In this note, we propose a categorical description of partons. Along the way, we make contact with ideas from generalized symmetries and SymTFT.

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@article{arxiv.2506.22544,
  title  = {An Algebraic Theory of Gapped Domain Wall Partons},
  author = {Matthew Buican and Roman Geiko and Milo Moses and Bowen Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22544},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9+7 pages, 13 figures