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We revisit the possibility of constructing non-invertible topological defects for the axial symmetry of massless QED, despite its ABJ anomaly. Dressing the defects with a topological quantum field theory with mixed $U(1)$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-13 Adrien Arbalestrier , Riccardo Argurio , Luigi Tizzano

We study non-invertible global symmetries in $(3+1)$-dimensional axion electrodynamics with a massless axion and a massless photon. In addition to a previously known non-invertible 0-form shift symmetry of the axion, we find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-03 Ryo Yokokura

It has recently been suggested that the chiral symmetry of the Standard Model is not explicitly broken by its ABJ anomaly, but is instead made non-invertible. In this work, I quantify the breaking of non-invertible symmetries of this type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Finn Gagliano

Symmetries play an essential role in the construction and phenomenology of quantum field theories (QFTs). We discuss how to construct symmetries of QFTs by extending minimal "seed" symmetry groups to larger groups that contain the seed(s)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Christian Döring , Andreas Trautner

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Justin Kaidi , Gabi Zafrir , Yunqin Zheng

We investigate the action of a non-invertible symmetry on spins chains whose topological lines are labelled by representations of the four-dimensional Taft algebra. The main peculiarity of this symmetry is the existence of junctions between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Clement Delcamp , Edmund Heng , Matthew Yu

We study $\mathbb{Z}_N$ one-form center symmetries in four-dimensional gauge theories using the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In this context, the associated TFT in the five-dimensional bulk is the BF model. We revisit its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-27 Zhihao Duan , Qiang Jia , Sungjay Lee

This is the introduction to the collection of review articles "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories". The first three sections are intended to give a general overview over the physical motivations behind this direction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Jörg Teschner

We study conformal field theories (CFTs) and their classifications from a modern perspective based on the abstract algebraic formalism of symmetries or conserved charges, known as symmetry topological field theories (SymTFTs). By studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Yoshiki Fukusumi , Taishi Kawamoto

What does it mean for a boundary condition to be symmetric with respect to a non-invertible global symmetry? We discuss two possible definitions in 1+1d. On the one hand, we call a boundary weakly symmetric if the symmetry defects can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Yichul Choi , Brandon C. Rayhaun , Yaman Sanghavi , Shu-Heng Shao

Knowing which parts of a complex system have identical roles simplifies computations and reveals patterns in its network structure. Group theory has been applied to study symmetries in unweighted networks. However, in real-world weighted…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-16 Julia Korol , Mateusz Iskrzyński

The $(D+1)$-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT$_{D+1}$) of a $D$-dimensional absolute quantum field theory (QFT$_D$) provides a topological characterization of symmetry data. In this framework, the SymTFT comes equipped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Oren Bergman , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Daniele Migliorati , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

We construct non-supersymmetric four dimensional gauge theories arising as effective theories of D-branes placed on various singularities in Type 0B string theory. We mostly focus on models which are conformal in the large N limit and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Ralph Blumenhagen , Anamaria Font , Dieter Lust

Using the numerical modular bootstrap, we constrain the space of 1+1d CFTs with a finite non-invertible global symmetry described by a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. We derive universal and rigorous upper bounds on the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

We construct examples of non-invertible global symmetries in two-dimensional superconformal field theories described by sigma models into Calabi-Yau target spaces. Our construction provides some of the first examples of non-invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-16 Clay Cordova , Giovanni Rizi

In this work we propose a way to promote the anomalous axial U(1) transformations to exact non-invertible U(1) symmetries. We discuss the procedure of coupling the non-invertible symmetry to a (dynamical or background) gauge field. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Avner Karasik

Non-invertible categorical symmetries have emerged as a powerful tool to uncover new beyond-Landau phases of matter, both gapped and gapless, along with second order phase transitions between them. The general theory of such phases in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari

Using the formalism of noncommutative geometric gauge theory based on the superconnection concept, we construct a new type of vector gauge theory possessing a shift-like symmetry and the usual gauge symmetry. The new shift-like symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Chang-Yeong Lee

We study a gauge theory in a 5D warped space via the dimensional deconstruction that a higher dimensional gauge theory is constructed from a moose of 4D gauge groups. By the AdS/CFT correspondence, a 5D warped gauge theory is dual to a 4D…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-23 Yuichiro Nakai

We analyze to all perturbative orders the properties of two possible quantum extensions of classically on-shell equivalent antisymmetric tensor gauge models in four dimensions. The first case, related to the soft breaking of a topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 G. Bandelloni A. Blasi