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Non-Invertible Defects in 5d, Boundaries and Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-12 v3

Abstract

We show that very simple theories of abelian gauge fields with a cubic Chern-Simons term in 5d have an infinite number of non-invertible co-dimension two defects. They arise by dressing the symmetry operators of the broken electric 1-form symmetry with a suitable topological field theory, for any rational angle. We further discuss the same theories in the presence of a 4d boundary, and more particularly in a holographic setting. There we find that the bulk defects, when pushed to the boundary, have various different fates. Most notably, they can become co-dimension one non-invertible defects of a boundary theory with an ABJ anomaly.

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@article{arxiv.2207.02831,
  title  = {Non-Invertible Defects in 5d, Boundaries and Holography},
  author = {Jeremias Aguilera Damia and Riccardo Argurio and Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02831},
  year   = {2023}
}

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