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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…

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Exploiting the symmetry topological field theory/topological order correspondence (SymTFT/TO), together with the higher-categorical structure of 6D N =(2,0) SCFTs, we prove that the total quantum dimension of the relative gaugeable algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Veronica Pasquarella

Generalized symmetry extends the usual notion of symmetry to ones that are of higher-form, acting on subsystems, non-invertible, etc. The concept was originally defined in the field theory context using the idea of topological defects. On…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-31 Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Xinyu Liu , Xie Chen

We introduce unitary network, an oriented architecture for tensor network unitaries. Compared to existing architectures, in a unitary network each local tensor is required to be a unitary matrix upon suitable reshaping. Global unitarity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wenqing Xie , Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po

Transformation groupoids associated to group actions capture the interplay between global and local symmetries of structures described in set-theoretic terms. This paper examines the analogous situation for structures described in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Jeffrey C. Morton , Roger Picken

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 characterize discrete (anti-)unitary symmetries and their non-invertible generalizations in $2+1$d topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) through their actions on line operators and fusion spaces. We explain all possible sources of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Matthew Buican , Rajath Radhakrishnan

We introduce invertible subalgebras of local operator algebras on lattices. An invertible subalgebra is defined to be one such that every local operator can be locally expressed by elements of the inveritible subalgebra and those of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jeongwan Haah

Modulated symmetries are internal symmetries that are not invariant under spacetime symmetry actions. We propose a general way to describe the lattice translation modulated symmetries in 1+1D, including the non-invertible ones, via the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Ching-Yu Yao

In recent work, we developed a method to construct invertible and non-invertible symmetries of finite-group gauge theories as topological domain walls on the lattice. In the present work, we consider abelian and non-abelian finite-group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Clay Cordova , Davi B. Costa , Po-Shen Hsin

We develop a new mathematical approach to diffeomorphism invariant quantum states for the quantisation of general field theories such as general relativity and modified gravity. Treating quantum fields as fibre bundles, we discuss operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 James Moffat , Teodora Oniga , Charles H. -T. Wang

Let V be a unitary space. Suppose G is a subgroup of the full symmetric group S_m and X is an irreducible unitary representation of G. In this paper, we introduce the generalized Cartesian symmetry class over V associated with G and X. Then…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Seyyed Sadegh Gholami , Yousef Zamani

We study bipartite unitary operators which stay invariant under the local actions of diagonal unitary and orthogonal groups. We investigate structural properties of these operators, arguing that the diagonal symmetry makes them suitable for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Satvik Singh , Ion Nechita

We explore topological manipulations in one spatial dimension, which are defined for a system with a global symmetry and map the system to another one with a dual symmetry. In particular, we discuss fusion category symmetries enhanced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Takamasa Ando

In the study of 2d (the space dimension) topological orders, it is well-known that bulk excitations are classified by unitary modular tensor categories. But these categories only describe the local observables on an open 2-disk in the long…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Yinghua Ai , Liang Kong , Hao Zheng

Higher form symmetry, one of the generalized symmetries, primarily involves the action of abelian groups. This is, due to the topological nature of symmetry defect operators. In this study, we extend the vector space (or vector bundle) in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Natsuya Kido

Computational Group Theory is applied to indexed objects (tensors, spinors, and so on) with dummy indices. There are two groups to consider: one describes the intrinsic symmetries of the object and the other describes the interchange of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. R. U. Manssur , R. Portugal

New universal invariant operators are introduced in a class of geometries which include the quaternionic structures and their generalisations as well as 4-dimensional conformal (spin) geometries. It is shown that, in a broad sense, all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 A. R. Gover , J. Slovak

We describe the mathematical theory of topological quantum computing with symmetry defects in the language of fusion categories and unitary representations. Symmetry defects together with anyons are modeled by G-crossed braided extensions…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Colleen Delaney , Zhenghan Wang

We investigate invertible elements and gradings in braided tensor categories. This leads us to the definition of theta-, product-, subgrading and orbitcategories in order to construct new families of BTC's from given ones. We use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Thomas Kerler