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We initiate the systematic construction of gauged matter-coupled supergravity theories in two dimensions. Subgroups of the affine global symmetry group of toroidally compactified supergravity can be gauged by coupling vector fields with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Henning Samtleben , Martin Weidner

We study anomalies of non-invertible duality symmetries in both 2d and 4d, employing the tool of the Symmetry TFT. In the 2d case we rephrase the known obstruction theory for the Tambara-Yamagami fusion category in a way easily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-24 Andrea Antinucci , Francesco Benini , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

We use the intrinsic one-form and two-form global symmetries of (3+1)$d$ bosonic field theories to classify quantum phases enriched by ordinary ($0$-form) global symmetry. Different symmetry-enriched phases correspond to different ways of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-06 Po-Shen Hsin , Alex Turzillo

Non-invertible symmetries have been extensively studied in quantum field theories in recent years. In this note we initiate their study in supergravity. We find infinite families of non-invertible defects in 11d and 10d Type II…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Eduardo García-Valdecasas

For any quantum system invariant under gauging a higher-form global symmetry, we construct a non-invertible topological defect by gauging in only half of spacetime. This generalizes the Kramers-Wannier duality line in 1+1 dimensions to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Yichul Choi , Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin , Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao

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 show that very simple theories of abelian gauge fields with a cubic Chern-Simons term in 5d have an infinite number of non-invertible co-dimension two defects. They arise by dressing the symmetry operators of the broken electric 1-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Jeremias Aguilera Damia , Riccardo Argurio , Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas

We study generalized discrete symmetries of quantum field theories in 1+1D generated by topological defect lines with no inverse. In particular, we describe 't Hooft anomalies and classify gapped phases stabilized by these symmetries,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryan Thorngren , Yifan Wang

It was recently argued that quantum field theories possess one-form and higher-form symmetries, labelled `generalized global symmetries.' In this paper, we describe how those higher-form symmetries can be understood mathematically as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-28 E. Sharpe

We study generalizations of the non-invertible duality defects present in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SU(N) SYM by studying theories with larger duality groups. We focus on 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ obtained by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-20 Andrea Antinucci , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

We extend the construction of the T-duality symmetry for the 2d compact boson to arbitrary values of the radius by including topological manipulations such as gauging continuous symmetries with flat connections. We show that the entire…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 Riccardo Argurio , Andrés Collinucci , Giovanni Galati , Ondrej Hulik , Elise Paznokas

We describe the self-duality symmetries for 4d Maxwell theory at any value of the coupling $\tau$ via topological manipulations that include gauging continuous symmetries with flat connections. Moreover, we demonstrate that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 Elise Paznokas

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Fabio Apruzzi , Ibrahima Bah , Federico Bonetti , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We consider quantum models corresponding to superymmetrizations of the two-dimensional harmonic oscillator based on worldline $d=1$ realizations of the supergroup SU$(\,{\cal N}/2\,|1)$, where the number of supersymmetries ${\cal N}$ is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Stepan Sidorov

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

We analyse the global symmetry structure of two-dimensional Non-Linear Sigma Models with Wess-Zumino term. When the target space has a compact isometry without fixed points, the theory has a pair of (group-like) global symmetries and many…

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

We present a framework to systematically investigate higher categorical symmetries in two-dimensional spin systems. Though exotic, such generalised symmetries have been shown to naturally arise as dual symmetries upon gauging invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-24 Clement Delcamp , Apoorv Tiwari

Gauging a symmetry can be thought of as the insertion of a spacetime-filling defect. Accordingly, we regard each gaugeable symmetry in a theory as defining a $-1$-form symmetry via condensation. The resulting operators, called gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-21 Thomas Vandermeulen

We study the quantum mechanics of a system of topologically interacting particles in 2+1 dimensions, which is described by coupling the particles to a Chern-Simons gauge field of an inhomogeneous group. Analysis of the phase space shows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. A. Bais , N. M. Muller

Non-invertible symmetries in quantum field theory (QFT) generalize the familiar product rule of groups to a more general fusion rule. In many cases, gauged versions of these symmetries can be regarded as dual descriptions of invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-02 Jonathan J. Heckman , Jacob McNamara , Miguel Montero , Adar Sharon , Cumrun Vafa , Irene Valenzuela