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Generalized Symmetries From Fusion Actions

Quantum Algebra 2026-01-23 v4 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory Category Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

Let AA be a condensable algebra in a modular tensor category C\mathcal{C}. We define an action of the fusion category CA\mathcal{C}_A of AA-modules in C\mathcal{C} on the morphism space \mboxHomC(x,A)\mbox{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(x,A) for any xx in C\mathcal{C}, whose characters are generalized Frobenius-Schur indicators. This fusion action can be considered on AA, and we prove a categorical generalization of the Schur-Weyl duality for this action. For any fusion subcategory B\mathcal{B} of CA\mathcal{C}_A containing all the local AA-modules, we prove the invariant subobject B=ABB=A^\mathcal{B} is a condensable subalgebra of AA. The assignment of B\mathcal{B} to ABA^\mathcal{B} defines a Galois correspondence between this kind of fusion subcategories of CA\mathcal{C}_A and the condensable subalgebras of AA. In the context of VOAs, we prove for any nice VOAs UAU \subset A, U=ACAU=A^{\mathcal{C}_A} where C=MU\mathcal{C}=\mathcal{M}_U is the category of UU-modules. In particular, if U=AGU = A^G for some finite automorphism group GG of A,A, the fusion action of CA\mathcal{C}_A on AA is equivalent to the GG-action on A.A.

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@article{arxiv.2508.13063,
  title  = {Generalized Symmetries From Fusion Actions},
  author = {Chongying Dong and Siu-Hung Ng and Li Ren and Feng Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.13063},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

minor revision of the previous version; Prop. 3.10 and some references are added; some typos are corrected; Latex 44 pages

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