Scalar, fermionic and supersymmetric field theories with subsystem symmetries in d+1 dimensions
Abstract
We study various non-relativistic field theories with exotic symmetries called subsystem symmetries, which have recently attracted much attention in the context of fractons. We start with a scalar theory called -theory in dimensions and discuss its properties studied in literature for such as self-duality, vacuum structure, 't Hooft anomaly, anomaly inflow and lattice regularization. Next we study a theory called chiral -theory which is an analogue of a chiral boson with subsystem symmetries. Then we discuss theories including fermions with subsystem symmetries. We first construct a supersymmetric version of the -theory and dropping its bosonic part leads us to a purely fermionic theory with subsystem symmetries called -theory. We argue that lattice regularization of the -theory generically suffers from an analogue of doubling problem as previously pointed out in the case. We propose an analogue of Wilson fermion to avoid the ``doubling" problem. We also supersymmetrize the chiral -theory and dropping the bosonic part again gives us a purely fermionic theory. We finally discuss vacuum structures of the theories with fermions and find that they are infinitely degenerate because of spontaneous breaking of subsystem symmetries.
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@article{arxiv.2212.13006,
title = {Scalar, fermionic and supersymmetric field theories with subsystem symmetries in d+1 dimensions},
author = {Masazumi Honda and Taiichi Nakanishi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13006},
year = {2023}
}
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33 pages, v3