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Global internal symmetries act unitarily on local observables or states of a quantum system. In this note, we aim to generalise this statement to extended observables by considering unitary actions of finite global 2-group symmetries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Thomas Bartsch

This paper addresses the question of how categorical symmetries act on extended operators in quantum field theory. Building on recent results in two dimensions, we introduce higher tube categories and algebras associated to higher fusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Thomas Bartsch , Mathew Bullimore , Andrea Grigoletto

In recent years, the traditional notion of symmetry in quantum theory was expanded to so-called generalised or categorical symmetries, which, unlike ordinary group symmetries, may be non-invertible. This appears to be at odds with Wigner's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Thomas Bartsch , Yuhan Gai , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Non-invertible symmetries of quantum field theories and many-body systems generalize the concept of symmetries by allowing non-invertible operations in addition to more ordinary invertible ones described by groups. The aim of this paper is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Masaki Okada , Yuji Tachikawa

We propose a framework for fusion category symmetry on the (1+1)D lattice in the infinite-volume limit by giving a formal interpretation of SymTFT decompositions. Our approach is based on axiomatizing physical boundary subalgebra of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 David E. Evans , Corey Jones

In this paper we continue our investigation of the global categorical symmetries that arise when gauging finite higher groups and their higher subgroups with discrete torsion. The motivation is to provide a common perspective on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Thomas Bartsch , Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Jamie Pearson

Using the numerical modular bootstrap, we constrain the space of 1+1d CFTs with a finite non-invertible global symmetry described by a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. We derive universal and rigorous upper bounds on the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

We consider the problem of building non-invertible quantum symmetries (as characterized by actions of unitary fusion categories) on noncommutative tori. We introduce a general method to construct actions of fusion categories on inductive…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-01-09 David E. Evans , Corey Jones

We study the apparent tension between locality and unitarity for symmetries in quantum field theory. This emerges in the context of categorical symmetries where symmetry operators are generically non-invertible. We argue that locality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Ibrahima Bah , Shlomo S. Razamat , Michal Shemesh , Hannah Tillim

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 initiate the S-matrix bootstrap analysis of theories with non-invertible symmetries in (1+1) dimensions. Our previous work showed that crossing symmetry of S-matrices in such theories is modified, with modification characterized by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-04 Christian Copetti , Lucia Cordova , Shota Komatsu

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

Generalized symmetries have emerged as a powerful organizing principle for exotic quantum phases. However, their role in open quantum systems, especially for non-invertible cases, remains largely unexplored. We address this by applying a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Xiao-Qi Sun

Let $\G$ be a locally compact group satisfying some technical requirements and $\wG$ its unitary dual. Using the theory of twisted crossed product $C^*$-algebras, we develop a twisted global quantization for symbols defined on $\G\times\wG$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-18 H. Bustos , M. Mantoiu

We construct analogs of the embedding of orthogonal and symplectic groups into unitary groups in the context of fusion categories. At least some of the resulting module categories also appear in boundary conformal field theory. We determine…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Hans Wenzl

In this paper, continuous binary operations of a topological space are studied and a criterion of their invertibility is proved. The classification problem of groups of invertible continuous binary operations of locally compact and locally…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Pavel S. Gevorgyan

$q$-charges describe the possible actions of a generalized symmetry on $q$-dimensional operators. In Part I of this series of papers, we describe $q$-charges for invertible symmetries; while the discussion of $q$-charges for non-invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We describe the unitary globalization of cohomologically induced modules $A_{\fq}(\lambda)$. The purpose of the paper is to give a geometric realization of the unitarizable modules. Our results do not constitute a proof of unitarity.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Leticia Barchini , Petr Somberg

A class of two-dimensional superintegrable systems on a constant curvature surface is considered as the natural generalization of some well known one-dimensional factorized systems. By using standard methods to find the shape-invariant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. A. Calzada , J. Negro , M. A. del Olmo

Most of the known non-invertible symmetries of quantum field theories in three and four spacetime dimensions act invertibly on local operators. An exception is coset symmetries, which can be constructed from gauging a non-normal subgroup of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Pavel Putrov , Rajath Radhakrishnan
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