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We study the implications of non-invertible chiral symmetry in a four-dimensional U(1) gauge theory coupled to massless fermions with electromagnetic $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ duality. This is done by deriving the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly of…

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We analyze the 2+1 dimensional gauge theory with two fermions in the real adjoint representation with non-zero Chern-Simons level. We propose a new fermion-fermion dualities between strongly-coupled theories and determine the quantum phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-15 Changha Choi

Global symmetries can be generalised to transformations generated by topological operators, including cases in which the topological operator does not have an inverse. A family of such topological operators are intimately related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-29 Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Chris Hull , Maxwell L. Velásquez Cotini Hutt

In this note we explore monodromy defects for non-invertible symmetries in Maxwell theory, exploiting the conformal mapping to $AdS_{3} \times S^{1}$. With this approach we recover the spectrum of the defect conformal primaries. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Vladimir Bashmakov

In recent years, the concept of global symmetry has generalized considerably. Two dramatic examples of this generalization are the exotic symmetries that govern theories with fractons and non-invertible symmetries, which do not fuse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-29 Ryan C. Spieler

A quantum field theory with a finite abelian symmetry $G$ may be equipped with a non-invertible duality defect associated with gauging $G$. For certain $G$, duality defects admit an alternative construction where one starts with invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Zhengdi Sun , Yunqin Zheng

We construct topological defects in two-dimensional classical lattice models and quantum chains. The defects satisfy local commutation relations guaranteeing that the partition function is independent of their path. These relations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-21 David Aasen , Paul Fendley , Roger S. K. Mong

There exists a well-known duality between the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory and the self-dual massive model in 2+1 dimensions. This dual description has been extended to topologically massive gauge theories (TMGT) in any dimension. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bruno Bertrand , Jan Govaerts

There has recently been a surge of new ideas and results for 2+1 dimensional gauge theories. We consider a recently proposed duality for 2+1 dimensional QCD, which predicts a symmetry-breaking phase. Using the F-theorem, we find bounds on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Adar Sharon

We consider the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory in noncommutative three dimensional space-time. We show that the Seiberg-Witten map is ambiguous due to the dimensional coupling constant. To get the dual theory we start from a master action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Harikumar , Victor O. Rivelles

For a class of two-dimensional Euclidean lattice field theories admitting topological lines encoded into a spherical fusion category, we explore aspects of their realisations as boundary theories of a three-dimensional topological quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Clement Delcamp , Nafiz Ishtiaque

We extend non-invertible duality concepts from one-dimensional systems to two spatial dimensions by constructing a web of non-invertible dualities for lattice models with subsystem symmetries. For the $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-25 Avijit Maity , Vikram Tripathi , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

In this paper and its sequel, we construct topologically invariant defects in two-dimensional classical lattice models and quantum spin chains. We show how defect lines commute with the transfer matrix/Hamiltonian when they obey the defect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-11 David Aasen , Roger S. K. Mong , Paul Fendley

In axion-Maxwell theory at the minimal axion-photon coupling, we find non-invertible 0- and 1-form global symmetries arising from the naive shift and center symmetries. Since the Gauss law is anomalous, there is no conserved,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-19 Yichul Choi , Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao

We consider the ($3{+}1$)-dimensional Maxwell theory in the situation where going around nontrivial paths in the spacetime involves the action of the duality transformation exchanging the electric field and the magnetic field, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-18 Chang-Tse Hsieh , Yuji Tachikawa , Kazuya Yonekura

We explore exact generalized symmetries in the standard 2+1d lattice $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge theory coupled to the Ising model, and compare them with their continuum field theory counterparts. One model has a (non-anomalous) non-invertible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-15 Yichul Choi , Yaman Sanghavi , Shu-Heng Shao , Yunqin Zheng

We examine the interplay of symmetry and topological order in $2+1$ dimensional topological phases of matter. We present a definition of the \it topological symmetry \rm group, which characterizes the symmetry of the emergent topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-16 Maissam Barkeshli , Parsa Bonderson , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

We study a model for gravity in 3+1 dimensions, inspired in general relativity in 2+1 dimensions. In contrast regular general relativity in 3+1 dimensions, the model postulates that space in absence of matter is flat. The requirement that…

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We apply the recently suggested strategy to lift state spaces and operators for (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theories to state spaces and operators for a (3+1)-dimensional TQFT with defects. We start from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Bianca Dittrich

The problem of duality symmetry in free field models is examined in details by performing a mode expansion of these fields which provides a mapping with the purely quantum mechanical example of a harmonic oscillator. By analysing the…

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