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We provide a superselection theory of symmetry defects in 2+1D symmetry enriched topological (SET) order in the infinite volume setting. For a finite symmetry group $G$ with a unitary on-site action, our formalism produces a $G$-crossed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Kyle Kawagoe , Siddharth Vadnerkar , Daniel Wallick

Generalized symmetries (also known as categorical symmetries) is a newly developing technique for studying quantum field theories. It has given us new insights into the structure of QFT and many new powerful tools that can be applied to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 T. Daniel Brennan , Sungwoo Hong

We examine generalized global symmetries as a kind of compactly supported cohomology, and so are led to revisit questions about the locality of quantum field theory, following Segal. Physics naturally suggests a generalization of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Owen Gwilliam

We prove that the unitary Drinfeld center of a unitary tensor category is equivalente to the category of unitary bimodules for the canonical W*-algebra object, generalizing M\"uger's result to the non-fusion case. This is then used to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Lucas Hataishi

In this paper, the notion of unitary vertex operator superalgebra is introduced. It is proved that the vertex operator superalgebras associated to the unitary highest weight representations for the Neveu-Schwarz Lie superalgebra, Heisenberg…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Chunrui Ai , Xingjun Lin

Structural properties of unitary groups over local, not necessarily commutative, rings are developed, with applications to the computation of the orders of these groups (when finite) and to the degrees of the irreducible constituents of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-22 J. Cruickshank , A. Herman , R. Quinlan , F. Szechtman

The generating functions for the gauge theory observables are often represented in terms of the unitary matrix integrals. In this work, the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of the generic multi-critical unitary matrix models are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-28 Taro Kimura , Ali Zahabi

We propose an index of non-invertible symmetry operators in 1+1 dimensions and discuss its relation to the realizability of non-invertible symmetries on the tensor product of finite dimensional on-site Hilbert spaces on the lattice. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Kansei Inamura

On the basis of the explicit formulae for the action of the unitary group of exponentials corresponding to almost solvable extensions of a given closed symmetric operator with equal deficiency indices, we derive a new representation for the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Kirill D. Cherednichenko , Alexander V. Kiselev , Luis O. Silva

Non-invertible symmetries of a quantum field theory (QFT) are a natural generalization of unitary symmetries, but in which the product of operators does not satisfy a group multiplication law. We show that such symmetry operations on states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Jonathan J. Heckman , Rebecca J. Hicks , Chitraang Murdia

We present practical and formal methods for gauging non-invertible symmetries in (2+1)d topological quantum field theories. Along the way, we generalize various aspects of invertible 0-form gauging, including symmetry fractionalization,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 Mahesh K. N. Balasubramanian , Matthew Buican , Clement Delcamp , Rajath Radhakrishnan

In this note, we propose an extension of the relation between worldsheet global symmetries and structures over moduli spaces of superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to include noninvertible symmetries. The most familiar examples of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 A. Perez-Lona , E. Sharpe , X. Yu

This thesis aims at concluding the classification results for topological phases with symmetry in 2+1 dimensions. The main result is that topological phases are classified by a triple of unitary braided fusion categories $\mathcal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-08 Tian Lan

Unitary Representations corresponding to local shifts in reference frames are a key topic for progress in Quantum Gravity. The fibre bundle construct defined in our previous work in which quantum fields become liftings of; or sections…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-29 James Moffat , Charles Wang

Cut vertices, a generalization of matrix elements of local operators, are revisited, and an expansion in terms of minimally subtracted cut vertices is formulated. An extension of the formalism to deal with semi-inclusive deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Grazzini

We produce a cofibrantly generated simplicial symmetric monoidal model structure for the category of (small unital) C*-categories, whose weak equivalences are the unitary equivalences. The closed monoidal structure consists of the maximal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Ivo Dell'Ambrogio

We investigate the task of local marking for locally implementable unitary operations. In this setting, multipartite quantum unitary channels, chosen randomly from a known set, are distributed among spatially separated parties without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Adil Imam , Satyaki Manna

A unital $C^*$-algebra is called $N$-subhomogeneous if its irreducible representations are finite dimensional with dimension at most $N$. We extend this notion to operator systems, replacing irreducible representations by boundary…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Ran Kiri

We study the superselection sectors of two quantum lattice systems stacked onto each other in the operator algebraic framework. We show in particular that all irreducible sectors of a stacked system are unitarily equivalent to a product of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Sven Bachmann , Alan Getz , Pieter Naaijkens , Naomi Wray

We show that the canonical map from the associative operad to the unital associative operad is a homotopy epimorphism for a wide class of symmetric monoidal model categories. As a consequence, the space of unital associative algebra…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Fernando Muro