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Fermionic Non-invertible Symmetry Behind Supersymmetric ADE Solitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-01 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The non-perturbative constraints imposed by intrinsic fermionic non-invertible symmetries in 1+1 dimensional gapped systems remain largely unexplored. In this letter, we propose the superstrip algebra as a unified framework to catalog the categorical symmetry data in a massive fermionic model. The algebra and its representations explicitly encode the vacuum structure, soliton degeneracies, and their quantum numbers. As a demonstration, we apply this framework to the N=2\mathcal N=2 minimal models with their least relevant deformation. We show that this specific deformation alone preserves a non-invertible superfusion category, a fermionic variant of SU(2)k\text{SU}(2)_k known to underlie the ADEADE classification of critical theories. Its superstrip algebra then accounts for the origin of the resulting ADEADE-type soliton spectrum and their fractional fermion number. Although our primary examples are supersymmetric and integrable, our framework itself relies on neither property, providing a new powerful tool for studying a broad class of strongly-coupled fermionic systems.

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@article{arxiv.2511.22129,
  title  = {Fermionic Non-invertible Symmetry Behind Supersymmetric ADE Solitons},
  author = {Jin Chen and Zhihao Duan and Qiang Jia and Sungjay Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22129},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages plus supplemental material