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We study generalizations of the non-invertible duality defects present in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SU(N) SYM by studying theories with larger duality groups. We focus on 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ obtained by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-20 Andrea Antinucci , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

Topological phases of matter in (2+1) dimensions are commonly equipped with global symmetries, such as electric-magnetic duality in gauge theories and bilayer symmetry in fractional quantum Hall states. Gauging these symmetries into local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-04 Xiao Chen , Abhishek Roy , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Shinsei Ryu

We prove that the Drinfeld center of a fusion 2-category is invariant under Morita equivalence. We go on to show that the concept of Morita equivalence between connected fusion 2-categories recovers exactly the notion of Witt equivalence…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Thibault D. Décoppet

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Chinmay Giridhar , Philipp Vojta , Zohar Nussinov , Gerardo Ortiz , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

After recalling the definition of a bicoalgebroid, we define comodules and modules over a bicoalgebroid. We construct the monoidal category of comodules, and define Yetter--Drinfel'd modules over a bicoalgebroid. It is proved that the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-07-09 Imre Balint

The inclusion of the unit in a braided tensor category $\mathcal{V}$ induces a 1-morphism in the Morita 4-category of braided tensor categories $BrTens$. We give criteria for the dualizability of this morphism. When $\mathcal{V}$ is a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Benjamin Haïoun

We prove exact complexity dichotomies for two quantum invariants of closed oriented three-manifolds, with the categorical data fixed. For a modular category $\mathcal{C}$, computing the Reshetikhin--Turaev invariant $Z_{\mathcal{C}}(M)$…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Cśar Galindo

One way to understand the deformation theory of a tensor category $M$ is through its Davydov-Yetter cohomology $H_{DY}^{\ast}(M)$ which in degree 3 and 4 is known to control respectively first order deformations of the associativity…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Angel Israel Toledo Castro

The aim of this paper is to define and study the 3-category of extensions of Picard 2-stacks over a site S and to furnish a geometrical description of the cohomology groups Ext^i of length 3 complexes of abelian sheaves. More precisely, our…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Cristiana Bertolin , Ahmet Emin Tatar

We study the topologically twisted compactification of the 6d $(2,0)$ M5-brane theory on an elliptically fibered K\"ahler three-fold preserving two supercharges. We show that upon reducing on the elliptic fiber, the 4d theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Benjamin Assel , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Following the general theory of categorified quantum groups developed by the author previously (arxiv:2304.07398), we construct the 2-Drinfel'd double associated to a finite group $N=G_0$. For $N=\mathbb{Z}_2$, we explicitly compute the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-25 Hank Chen

Anomalies of global symmetries are important tools for understanding the dynamics of quantum systems. We investigate anomalies of non-invertible symmetries in 3+1d using 4+1d bulk topological quantum field theories given by Abelian two-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-13 Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin , Carolyn Zhang

Non-trivial braid-group representations appear as non-Abelian quantum statistics of emergent Majorana zero modes in one and two-dimensional topological superconductors. Here, we generate such representations with topologically protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Yafis Barlas , Emil Prodan

We study fermionic non-invertible symmetries in (1+1)d, which are generalized global symmetries that mix fermion parity symmetry with other invertible and non-invertible internal symmetries. Such symmetries are described by fermionic fusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-18 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Kansei Inamura , Apoorv Tiwari

We study symmetries and defects of a wide class of two dimensional Abelian topological phases characterized by Lie algebras. We formulate the symmetry group of all Abelian topological field theories. The symmetries relabel quasiparticles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-30 Mayukh Nilay Khan , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Taylor L. Hughes

Davydov--Yetter (DY) cohomology classifies infinitesimal deformations of the monoidal structure of tensor functors and tensor categories. In this paper we provide new tools for the computation of the DY cohomology for finite tensor…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Matthieu Faitg , Azat M. Gainutdinov , Christoph Schweigert

We introduce, for a symmetric fusion category $\mathcal{A}$ with Drinfeld centre $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{A})$, the notion of $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{A})$-crossed braided tensor category. These are categories that are enriched over…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Thomas A. Wasserman

We establish a Morita theorem to construct triangle equivalences between the singularity categories of (commutative and non-commutative) Gorenstein rings and the cluster categories of finite dimensional algebras over fields, and more…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Norihiro Hanihara , Osamu Iyama

We present a quantum mechanical approach to understanding the Hilbert space and the defect Hilbert spaces associated with line operators of BF theory combined with level-$k$ Chern-Simons theory. The defect Hilbert spaces are closely related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Qiang Jia , Jiahua Tian

A 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a symmetric monoidal functor from the category of 3-cobordisms to the category of vector spaces. Such TQFTs provide in particular numerical invariants of closed 3-manifolds such as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Mickael Lallouche