Introduction to topological symmetry in QFT
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-07-07 v3 Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Topology
math.MP
Quantum Algebra
Abstract
This brief note publicizes the quantum framework for symmetry that is developed in our joint paper arXiv:2209.07471 with Greg Moore and Constantin Teleman. We include additional motivation and an application to a selection rule for line defects in 4-dimensional gauge theories.
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@article{arxiv.2212.00195,
title = {Introduction to topological symmetry in QFT},
author = {Daniel S. Freed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00195},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
14 pages, 7 figures. v2 fixed title in announcement. v3 has redrawn figures for publication