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Non-Invertible Symmetries from Holography and Branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-30 v2

Abstract

We propose a systematic approach to deriving symmetry generators of Quantum Field Theories in holography. Central to this are the Gauss law constraints in the Hamiltonian quantization of Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs), which are obtained from supergravity. In turn we realize the symmetry generators from world-volume theories of D-branes in holography. Our main focus is on non-invertible symmetries, which have emerged in the past year as a new type of symmetry in d4d\geq 4 QFTs. We exemplify our proposal in the holographic confinement setup, dual to 4d N=1\mathcal{N}=1 Super-Yang Mills. In the brane-picture, the fusion of non-invertible symmetries naturally arises from the Myers effect on D-branes. In turn, their action on line defects is modeled by the Hanany-Witten effect.

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@article{arxiv.2208.07373,
  title  = {Non-Invertible Symmetries from Holography and Branes},
  author = {Fabio Apruzzi and Ibrahima Bah and Federico Bonetti and Sakura Schafer-Nameki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.07373},
  year   = {2023}
}

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10 pages; published version