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Non-invertible symmetries and boundaries in four dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-09-26 v3 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We study quantum field theories with boundary by utilizing non-invertible symmetries. We consider three kinds of boundary conditions of the four dimensional Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 lattice gauge theory at the critical point as examples. The weights of the elements on the boundary is determined so that these boundary conditions are related by the Kramers-Wannier-Wegner (KWW) duality. In other words, it is required that the KWW duality defects ending on the boundary is topological. Moreover, we obtain the ratios of the hemisphere partition functions with these boundary conditions; this result constrains the boundary renormalization group flows under the assumption of the conjectured g-theorem in four dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2304.01550,
  title  = {Non-invertible symmetries and boundaries in four dimensions},
  author = {Masataka Koide and Yuta Nagoya and Satoshi Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01550},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, 19 figures: v2: references and comments added