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SymTFTs for $U(1)$ symmetries from descent

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-11-25 v1

Abstract

Recently, the notion of symmetry descent has been introduced in order to obtain the (d+1)(d+1)-dimensional Symmetry TFT (SymTFT) of a dd-dimensional QFT from the edge mode behaviour of a theory in (d+2)(d+2)-dimensions. This method has so far been used to obtain SymTFTs for discrete higher-form symmetries of geometrically engineered QFTs. In this note, we extend the symmetry descent procedure to obtain SymTFTs for U(1)U(1) higher-form symmetries of geometrically engineered QFTs. We find the resulting SymTFTs match those in the works of Antinucci-Benini and Brennan-Sun.

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@article{arxiv.2411.15126,
  title  = {SymTFTs for $U(1)$ symmetries from descent},
  author = {Finn Gagliano and Iñaki García Etxebarria},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15126},
  year   = {2024}
}

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25 pages