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We discuss a large class of non-relativistic continuum field theories where the Euclidean spatial symmetry of the classical theory is violated in the quantum theory by an Adler-Bell-Jackiw-like anomaly. In particular, the continuous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-13 Nathan Seiberg

In topological phases in $2+1$ dimensions, anyons fall into representations of quantum group symmetries. As proposed in our work (arXiv:1308.4673), physics of a symmetry enriched phase can be extracted by the Mathematics of (hidden) quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-16 Yuxiang Gu , Ling-Yan Hung , Yidun Wan

We realize higher-form symmetries in F-theory compactifications on non-compact elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds. Central to this endeavour is the topology of the boundary of the non-compact elliptic fibration, as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Max Hubner , David R. Morrison , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We study the relation between emergent 1-form symmetries and soft photon theorems in QED. We show that in the relevant massive and massless kinematic regimes, described respectively by HQET and SCET, the soft sector admits electric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Luigi Tizzano

The construction of a theory of quantum gravity is an outstanding problem that can benefit from better understanding the laws of nature that are expected to hold in regimes currently inaccessible to experiment. Such fundamental laws can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Friedrich Schöller

Topological qauntum field theory(TQFT) is a very powerful theoretical tool to study topological phases and phase transitions. In $2+1$D, it is well known that the Chern-Simons theory captures all the universal topological data of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-26 Qing-Rui Wang , Meng Cheng , Chenjie Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We sketch a procedure to capture general non-invertible symmetries of a d-dimensional quantum field theory in the data of a higher-category, which captures the local properties of topological defects associated to the symmetries. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari

In this article we propose a `second quantization' scheme especially suitable to deal with non-trivial, highly symmetric phase spaces, implemented within a more general Group Approach to Quantization, which recovers the standard Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 M. Calixto , V. Aldaya , M. Navarro

This brief note publicizes the quantum framework for symmetry that is developed in our joint paper arXiv:2209.07471 with Greg Moore and Constantin Teleman. We include additional motivation and an application to a selection rule for line…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-07 Daniel S. Freed

We develop a current-based construction of generalized symmetries in $(3+1)$D twisted $BF$ topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), focusing on intrinsically non-invertible higher-form symmetries and their mixed anomalies. Starting from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Zhi-Feng Zhang , Yizhou Huang , Qing-Rui Wang , Peng Ye

We construct several solutions of effective actions for string theories beyond the supergravity approximation utilizing the framework of the Double Field Theory (DFT). The DFT effective actions, which are well suited for accommodating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Oleg Lunin , Parita Shah

We study four-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with an abelian $U(1)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap approach. We obtain numerical bounds on the scaling dimensions of low-lying operators, the stress-tensor central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Andrea Manenti , Marten Reehorst , Alessandro Vichi

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 study properties of boundary conditions (BCs) in theories with categorical (or non-invertible) symmetries. We describe how the transformation properties, or (generalized) charges, of BCs are captured by topological BCs of Symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Christian Copetti , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Conformal defects -- extended objects in conformal field theories -- carry localised excitations inherited from symmetry currents, known as the displacements and tilts. They capture the linear response of the defect to deformations of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Nadav Drukker , Ziwen Kong , Petr Kravchuk

We study quantum field theories which have quantum groups as global internal symmetries. We show that in such theories operators are generically non-local, and should be thought as living at the ends of topological lines. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Barak Gabai , Victor Gorbenko , Jiaxin Qiao , Bernardo Zan , Aleksandr Zhabin

We review a recently proposed SuperGeometric (SG) approach to Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) that allow for scalar-fermion field transformations in a manifestly reparameterisation covariant manner. By adopting natural choices for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-23 Viola Gattus , Apostolos Pilaftsis

The structure of equivariant cohomology in non-abelian localization formulas and topological field theories is discussed. Equivariance is formulated in terms of a nilpotent BRST symmetry, and another nilpotent operator which restricts the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Antti J. Niemi , O. Tirkkonen

Motivated by the three-dimensional topological field theory / two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) correspondence, we study a broad class of one-dimensional quantum mechanical models, known as anyonic chains, that can give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Matthew Buican , Andrey Gromov

We use the 3D SymTFT approach to study the generalized symmetries and partition functions of 2D CFTs in various orbifolded and fermionic phases. These phases can be realized by the sandwich construction in the associated 3D SymTFTs with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Jin Chen , Qiang Jia