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We investigate the emergence of locality in infrared (IR) physics, which indicates an asymmetric renormalization group (RG) flow from a $d$-dimensional ultraviolet (UV) conformal field theory (CFT) to a lower-dimensional IR effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-09 Chanyong Park

We discuss various issues related to the understanding of the conformal anomaly matching in CFT from the dual holographic viewpoint. First, we act with a PBH diffeomorphism on a generic 5D RG flow geometry and show that the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-21 Alejandro Cabo-Bizet , Edi Gava , K. S. Narain

We construct a set of non-rational conformal field theories that consist of deformations of Toda field theory for sl(n). Besides conformal invariance, the theories still enjoy a remnant infinite-dimensional affine symmetry. The case n=3 is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Juan Pablo Babaro , Gaston Giribet , Arash Ranjbar

In two-dimensional conformal field theory, we analyze conformally invariant boundary conditions which break part of the bulk symmetries. When the subalgebra that is preserved by the boundary conditions is the fixed algebra under the action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Fuchs , C. Schweigert

Extended objects (defects) in Quantum Field Theory exhibit rich, nontrivial dynamics describing a variety of physical phenomena. These systems often involve strong coupling at long distances, where the bulk and defects interact, making…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Andrea Antinucci , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

In this paper we study a class of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs with ADE global symmetry defined via Type IIB compactification on a class of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{C}^3\times\mathbb{C}^*$. These can also be constructed by compactifying the 6d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Simone Giacomelli

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the global categorical symmetries that arise when gauging finite higher groups in three or more dimensions. The motivation is to provide a common perspective on constructions of non-invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Thomas Bartsch , Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Jamie Pearson

We study the relation between boundary conditions and categorical symmetries of two-dimensional fermionic conformal field theories. We determine all anomaly-free invertible global symmetries of two free complex Weyl fermions, which take the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Philip Boyle Smith , Rishi Mouland , Maxwell L. Velásquez Cotini Hutt

We study four dimensional $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories with matter multiplets. For all such models for which the gauge group is $SU(2)$, we derive the exact metric on the moduli space of quantum vacua and the exact spectrum of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 N. Seiberg , E. Witten

A general two dimensional fractional supersymmetric conformal field theory is investigated. The structure of the symmetries of the theory is studied. Then, applying the generators of the closed subalgebra generated by $(L_{-1}, L_{0},…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Fardin Kheirandish , Mohammad Khorrami

We present practical and formal methods for gauging non-invertible symmetries in (2+1)d topological quantum field theories. Along the way, we generalize various aspects of invertible 0-form gauging, including symmetry fractionalization,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 Mahesh K. N. Balasubramanian , Matthew Buican , Clement Delcamp , Rajath Radhakrishnan

We use the language of von Neumann subfactors to investigate non-invertible symmetries in two dimensions. A fusion categorical symmetry $\mathcal{C}$, its module category $\mathcal{M}$, and a gauging labeled by an algebra object…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-17 Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

In recent years we have learned that several four-dimensional field theories can manifest non-invertible zero-form symmetries generalizing the Kramers-Wannier duality defect of the 2d critical Ising model. Several recent works by various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Michele Del Zotto , Azeem Hasan , Elias Riedel Gårding

We study duality defects in 2+1d theories with $\bZ^{(0)}_N\times\bZ^{(1)}_N$ global symmetry and trivial mixed 't Hooft anomaly. By gauging these symmetries simultaneously in half of the spacetime, we define duality defects for theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Lorenzo Ruggeri

We investigate the emergence of finite-amplitude non-zonal flows on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ arising from stationary solutions to the 2D Euler equations. By restricting the Laplace-Beltrami eigenspace to the invariant subspace of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yuri Cacchiò

The moduli space of c=1 conformal field theories in two dimensions has a multicritical point, where a circle theory is equivalent to an orbifold theory. We analyse all the conformal branes in both descriptions of this theory, and find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Dan Israel , Eliezer Rabinovici

We construct a family of non-invertible topological defects in two-dimensional theories of $n$ Weyl fermions. The construction relies on the existence of $G$-symmetric conformal boundary conditions for $n$ Dirac fermions. Upon unfolding,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Pengcheng Wei , Yunqin Zheng

We study duality in $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric QCD in the non-Abelian Coulomb phase, order-by-order in scheme-independent series expansions. Using exact results, we show how the dimensions of various fundamental and composite chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Thomas A. Ryttov , Robert Shrock

Topological duality defects arise as codimension one generalized symmetry operators in quantum field theories (QFTs) with a duality symmetry. Recent investigations have shown that in the case of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super Yang-Mills (SYM)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hubner , Ethan Torres , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

We discuss a variety of codimension-one, non-invertible topological defects in general 3+1d QFTs with a discrete one-form global symmetry. These include condensation defects from higher gauging of the one-form symmetries on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Yichul Choi , Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin , Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao