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The goal of this paper is to classify fusion categories $\otimes$-generated by a $K$-normal object (defined in this paper) of Frobenius-Perron dimension less than 2. This classification has recently become accessible due to a result of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Cain Edie-Michell

A quantum field theory with a finite abelian symmetry $G$ may be equipped with a non-invertible duality defect associated with gauging $G$. For certain $G$, duality defects admit an alternative construction where one starts with invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Zhengdi Sun , Yunqin Zheng

We construct extended TQFTs associated to Rozansky--Witten models with target manifolds $T^*\mathbb{C}^n$. The starting point of the construction is the 3-category whose objects are such Rozansky--Witten models, and whose morphisms are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ilka Brunner , Nils Carqueville , Daniel Roggenkamp

We classify finite pointed braided tensor categories admitting a fiber functor in terms of bilinear forms on symmetric Yetter-Drinfeld modules over abelian groups. We describe the groupoid formed by braided equivalences of such categories…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Costel-Gabriel Bontea , Dmitri Nikshych

We introduce a class of non-invertible topological defects in (3+1)d gauge theories whose fusion rules are the higher-dimensional analogs of those of the Kramers-Wannier defect in the (1+1)d critical Ising model. As in the lower-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-19 Justin Kaidi , Kantaro Ohmori , Yunqin Zheng

We investigate the gauging of higher-form finite Abelian symmetries and their sub-groups in quantum spin models in spatial dimensions $d=2$ and 3. Doing so, we naturally uncover gauged models with dual higher-group symmetries and potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-19 Heidar Moradi , Ömer M. Aksoy , Jens H. Bardarson , Apoorv Tiwari

Topological defect lines (TDLs) are extended line operators which act on the Hilbert space of two-dimensional CFTs and satisfy non-trivial fusion algebras when forming junctions. Among the most interesting fusion algebras are the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-20 Babak Haghighat , Youran Sun

It is well-known that gauging a finite 0-form symmetry in a quantum field theory leads to a dual symmetry generated by topological Wilson line defects. These are described by the representations of the 0-form symmetry group which form a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Jingxiang Wu

We apply the mechanism of factorization homology to construct and compute category-valued two-dimensional topological field theories associated to braided tensor categories, generalizing the $(0,1,2)$-dimensional part of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-08-15 David Ben-Zvi , Adrien Brochier , David Jordan

We define a symmetric tensor enhancement $\mathrm{E}\mathbb{F}$ with full duals of the 3-category $\mathbb{F}$ of fusion categories in which every Reshetikhin--Turaev theory has a fully local realization. Our $\mathrm{E}\mathbb{F}$ is a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Daniel S. Freed , Claudia I. Scheimbauer , Constantin Teleman

We apply the recently suggested strategy to lift state spaces and operators for (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theories to state spaces and operators for a (3+1)-dimensional TQFT with defects. We start from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Bianca Dittrich

We study a connection between duality and topological field theories. First, 2d Kramers-Wannier duality is formulated as a simple 3d topological claim (more or less Poincare duality), and a similar formulation is given for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Pavol Severa

We construct non-invertible symmetries in 6d $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ superconformal field theories that arise from Green-Schwarz (GS) automorphisms, which form abelian or non-abelian groups. Applied to $\mathbb{Z}_2$, $\mathbb{Z}_3$ and $S_3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Fabio Apruzzi , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Alison Warman

We study generalized symmetries of quantum field theories in 1+1D generated by topological defect lines with no inverse. This paper follows our companion paper on gapped phases and anomalies associated with these symmetries. In the present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-25 Ryan Thorngren , Yifan Wang

We derive the Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) for 3d supersymmetric quantum field theories (QFTs) constructed in M-theory either via geometric engineering or holography. These 4d SymTFTs encode the symmetry structures of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Marieke van Beest , Dewi S. W. Gould , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

In this article, we investigate monoidal, braided, sylleptic centralizers of monoidal, braided, sylleptic 2-functors. We specifically focus on multifusion 2-categories and show that monoidal, braided, sylleptic centralizers are multifusion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Hao Xu

In this paper, we present a construction toward a new type of TQFTs at the crossroads of low-dimensional topology, algebraic geometry, physics, and homotopy theory. It assigns TMF-modules to closed 3-manifolds and maps of TMF-modules to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Sergei Gukov , Vyacheslav Krushkal , Lennart Meier , Du Pei

It was observed recently that for a fixed finite group $G$, the set of all Drinfeld centres of $G$ twisted by 3-cocycles form a group, the so-called group of modular extensions (of the representation category of $G$), which is isomorphic to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Alexei Davydov , Darren Simmons

We present a general approach for detecting when a fusion category symmetry is anomalous, based on the existence of a special kind of Lagrangian algebra of the corresponding Drinfeld center. The Drinfeld center of a fusion category…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-05 Carolyn Zhang , Clay Córdova

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