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The notion of quantum symmetry has recently been extended to include reduced-dimensional transformations and algebraic structures beyond groups. Such generalized symmetries lead to exotic phases of matter and excitations that defy Landau's…

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The notion of global higher-form symmetries has received much attention, but leaves room for a more systematic mathematical formulation. In this article, we highlight the concept of higher automorphism bundles from the field of higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 Alonso Perez-Lona

We present a class of three-dimensional quantum field theories whose ordinary global symmetries mix with higher-form symmetries to form a continuous 2-group. All these models can be obtained by performing a gauging procedure in a parent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-26 Jeremias Aguilera Damia , Riccardo Argurio , Luigi Tizzano

Gauging is a powerful operation on symmetries in quantum field theory (QFT), as it connects distinct theories and also reveals hidden structures in a given theory. We initiate a systematic investigation of gauging discrete generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Oleksandr Diatlyk , Conghuan Luo , Yifan Wang , Quinten Weller

We establish a novel correspondence between 4D $\mathcal N=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $D^2\times T^2$ and open XYZ spin chains with generalized boundary conditions, extending beyond previous 3D Bethe/gauge duality frameworks. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Xiang-Mao Ding , Ting Zhang

Dualities play a central role in the study of quantum spin chains, providing insight into the structure of quantum phase diagrams and phase transitions. In this work we study categorical dualities, which are defined as bounded-spread…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Corey Jones , Kylan Schatz , Dominic J. Williamson

This article is expository in nature, outlining some of the many still incompletely understood features of higher spin field theory. We are mainly considering higher spin gauge fields in their own right as free-standing theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-19 Anders K. H. Bengtsson

We explore non-invertible symmetries in two-dimensional lattice models with subsystem $\mathbb Z_2$ symmetry. We introduce a subsystem $\mathbb Z_2$-gauging procedure, called the subsystem Kramers-Wannier transformation, which generalizes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-03 Weiguang Cao , Linhao Li , Masahito Yamazaki , Yunqin Zheng

We propose the representation principle to study physical systems with a given symmetry. In the context of symmetry enriched topological orders, we give the appropriate representation category, the category of SET orders, which include SPT…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-20 Tian Lan , Gen Yue , Longye Wang

Recently, many studies are focused on generalized global symmetry, a mixture of both invertible and non-invertible symmetries in various space-time dimensions. The complete structure of generalized global symmetry is described by higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-13 Wenjie Xi , Tian Lan , Longye Wang , Chenjie Wang , Wei-Qiang Chen

We develop a systematic framework for understanding symmetries in topological phases in 2+1 dimensions using the string-net model, encompassing both gauge symmetries that preserve anyon species and global symmetries permuting anyon species,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-01 Yu Zhao , Yidun Wan

We study duality transformations of the star-square relation and the generalized star-triangle relation for Ising-like integrable lattice spin models. The integrable models are obtained via gauge/YBE correspondence which connects the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Mustafa Mullahasanoglu

This manuscript presents a novel framework that integrates higher-order symmetries and category theory into machine learning. We introduce new mathematical constructs, including hyper-symmetry categories and functorial representations, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ronald Katende

The deformations of higher-spin symmetries induced by cubic interactions of symmetric massless bosonic fields are analyzed within the metric-like formalism. Our analysis amends the existing classification according to gauge-algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Euihun Joung , Massimo Taronna

Many structures of interest in two-dimensional category theory have aspects that are inherently strict. This strictness is not a limitation, but rather plays a fundamental role in the theory of such structures. For instance, a monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Nathanael Arkor , John Bourke , Joanna Ko

't Hooft anomalies impose fundamental constraints on quantum matter and often lead to emergent symmetry structures upon gauging. We analyze a lattice model with four global symmetries realizing a mixed anomaly described by $\sim a_1\wedge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-06 Tsubasa Oishi , Hiromi Ebisu

We study six dimensional supergravity theories with superconformal sectors (SCFTs). Instances of such theories can be engineered using type IIB strings, or more generally F-Theory, which translates field theoretic constraints to geometry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-03 Andreas P. Braun , Magdalena Larfors , Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann

In this paper, we investigate how it is possible to define a new class of lattice gauge models based on a dualization procedure of a previous generalization of the Kitaev Quantum Double Models. In the case of this previous generalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. F. Araujo de Resende , J. P. Ibieta Jimenez , J. Lorca Espiro

We use finite group topological lattice gauge theory, also known as the quantum double model, as a lens to explore a notion of topological order enriched by a non-invertible symmetry. For invertible symmetry enriched topological order,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Lea E. Bottini , Clement Delcamp , Edmund Heng , Campbell K. McLauchlan , Dominic J. Williamson

We explore new aspects of internal fermionic shifting symmetries, present in physical systems such as free Dirac spinors and p-form tensor-spinor fields. We propose a novel procedure to gauge these global symmetries, which also introduces a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Federico Ambrosino , Ran Luo , Yi-Nan Wang , Yi Zhang