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Non-Invertible Symmetries of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM and Twisted Compactification

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-08-24 v1

Abstract

Non-invertible symmetries have recently been understood to provide interesting contraints on RG flows of QFTs. In this work, we show how non-invertible symmetries can also be used to generate entirely new RG flows, by means of so-called "non-invertible twisted compactification". We illustrate the idea in the example of twisted compactifications of 4d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM) to three dimensions. After giving a catalogue of non-invertible symmetries descending from Montonen-Olive duality transformations of 4d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM, we show that twisted compactification by non-invertible symmetries can be used to obtain 3d N=6\mathcal{N}=6 theories which appear otherwise unreachable if one restricts to twists by invertible symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.2205.01104,
  title  = {Non-Invertible Symmetries of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM and Twisted Compactification},
  author = {Justin Kaidi and Gabi Zafrir and Yunqin Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.01104},
  year   = {2022}
}

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53 pages, 12 figures, 18 tables