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Anomaly resolution by non-invertible symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-21 v2

Abstract

In this paper we generalize previous results on anomaly resolution to noninvertible symmetries. Briefly, given a global symmetry G of some theory with a 't Hooft anomaly rendering it ungaugeable, the idea of anomaly resolution is to extend G to a larger anomaly-free symmetry of the same theory with a trivially-acting kernel. In previous work, several of the coauthors demonstrated that in two-dimensional theories, by virtue of decomposition, gauging the larger symmetry is equivalent to a disjoint union of theories in which a nonanomalous subgroup of G is gauged. In this paper, we consider examples in which the larger symmetry is not a group, but instead a noninvertible symmetry defined by some fusion category. In principle the same ideas apply to the case that G itself is noninvertible. We discuss the construction of larger symmetries using both SymTFT methods as well as algebraically via (quasi-)Hopf algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2504.06333,
  title  = {Anomaly resolution by non-invertible symmetries},
  author = {A. Perez-Lona and D. Robbins and S. Roy and E. Sharpe and T. Vandermeulen and X. Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06333},
  year   = {2026}
}

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54 pages, LaTeX; v2: references added

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