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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

Statistical models that possess symmetry arise in diverse settings such as random fields associated to geophysical phenomena, exchangeable processes in Bayesian statistics, and cyclostationary processes in engineering. We formalize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Parikshit Shah , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Non-invertible symmetries have by now seen numerous constructions in higher dimensional Quantum Field Theories (QFT). In this paper we provide an in depth study of gauging 0-form symmetries in the presence of non-invertible symmetries. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari

The necessity of renormalization arises from the infinite integrals which are caused by the discrepancy between the orders of differential and integral operators in the four dimensional QFTs. Therefore in view of the fact that finiteness…

General Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 F. Ghaboussi

Quantum field theories can have both continuous and finite 0-form symmetries. We study global symmetry structures that arise when both kinds of 0-form symmetries are present. The global structure associated to continuous 0-form symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Dewi S. W. Gould

We introduce a new class of operators in any theory with a 't Hooft large-$N$ limit that we call colour-twist operators. They are defined by twisting the colour-trace with a global symmetry transformation and are continuously linked to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Andrea Cavaglia , David Grabner , Nikolay Gromov , Amit Sever

Global symmetries can be generalised to transformations generated by topological operators, including cases in which the topological operator does not have an inverse. A family of such topological operators are intimately related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-29 Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Chris Hull , Maxwell L. Velásquez Cotini Hutt

A $q$-form global symmetry is a global symmetry for which the charged operators are of space-time dimension $q$; e.g. Wilson lines, surface defects, etc., and the charged excitations have $q$ spatial dimensions; e.g. strings, membranes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Davide Gaiotto , Anton Kapustin , Nathan Seiberg , Brian Willett

$q$-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

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

After summarizing characteristics of antidiagonal operators, we derive three direct sum decompositions characterizing antidiagonalizable linear operators - the first up to permutation-similarity, the second up to similarity, and the third…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-04-28 David R. Nicholus

We propose the general idea that 't Hooft anomalies of generalized global symmetries can be understood in terms of the properties of solitonic defects, which generically are non-topological defects. The defining property of such defects is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-27 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

$T\bar{T}$-deformed CFTs are known to possess nonlocal conformal symmetries that do not act tractably on the undeformed local operators. In this paper, we explicitly construct two distinct classes of operators: (i) dressed operators, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Liangyu Chen , Zhengyuan Du , Kangning Liu , Wei Song

The $T \overline{T}$ operator provides a universal irrelevant deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theories with remarkable properties, including connections to both string theory and holography beyond $\mathrm{AdS}$ spacetimes. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Christian Ferko

Symmetries and their anomalies give strong constraints on renormalization group (RG) flows of quantum field theories. Recently, the identification of a theory's global symmetries with its topological sector has provided additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-24 T. Daniel Brennan

We study reductions of 6d theories on a $d$-dimensional manifold $M_d$, focusing on the interplay between symmetries, anomalies, and dynamics of the resulting $(6-d)$-dimensional theory $T[M_d]$. We refine and generalize the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-09 Sergei Gukov , Po-Shen Hsin , Du Pei

We study 3d and 4d systems with a one-form global symmetry, explore their consequences, and analyze their gauging. For simplicity, we focus on $\mathbb{Z}_N$ one-form symmetries. A 3d topological quantum field theory (TQFT) $\mathcal{T}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-02 Po-Shen Hsin , Ho Tat Lam , Nathan Seiberg

By making use of conformal mapping, we construct various time-evolution operators in (1+1) dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), which take the form $\int dx\, f(x) \mathcal{H}(x)$, where $\mathcal{H}(x)$ is the Hamiltonian density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We construct symmetry generators and operators for $J\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories by generalizing the framework established for $T\bar{T}$ deformations. Working in the Hamiltonian formalism on the plane, we derive the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Liangyu Chen , Zhengyuan Du , Wei Song

We devise a general method for obtaining $0$-form noninvertible discrete chiral symmetries in $4$-dimensional $SU(N)/\mathbb Z_p$ and $SU(N)\times U(1)/\mathbb Z_p$ gauge theories with matter in arbitrary representations, where $\mathbb…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Mohamed M. Anber , Samson Y. L. Chan