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Mixed anomalies, higher form symmetries, two-group symmetries and non-invertible symmetries have proved to be useful in providing non-trivial constraints on the dynamics of quantum field theories. We study mixed anomalies involving discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi

We explore a situation where a global symmetry of the ultraviolet (UV) theory does not act faithfully on the local infrared (IR) degrees of freedom, but instead acts effectively as a higher-form symmetry. We refer to this phenomenon as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Nathan Seiberg , Sahand Seifnashri

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 explore the consequence of generalized symmetries in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories. First, we classify all possible supersymmetric gauge theories with a simple gauge group that have a nontrivial one-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

We study a relationship between conformally invariant boundary conditions and anomalies of conformal field theories (CFTs) in 1+1 dimensions. For a given CFT with a global symmetry, we consider symmetric gapping potentials which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Linhao Li , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Yuan Yao , Masaki Oshikawa

Asynchronous Time Series is a multivariate time series where all the channels are observed asynchronously-independently, making the time series extremely sparse when aligning them. We often observe this effect in applications with complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi , Johannes Burchert , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

We investigate the application of 't Hooft's anomaly matching conditions to gauge theories at finite matter density. We show that the matching conditions constrain the low-energy quasiparticle spectrum associated with possible realizations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 S. D. Hsu , F. Sannino , M. Schwetz

We use F-theory to classify possibly all six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs). This involves a two step process: We first classify all possible tensor branches allowed in F-theory (which correspond to allowed collections of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Tom Rudelius , Cumrun Vafa

Topological holography is a conjectured correspondence between the symmetry charges and defects of a $D$-dimensional system with the anyons in a $(D+1)$-dimensional topological order: the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-01 Rui Wen , Weicheng Ye , Andrew C. Potter

Anomalies of global symmetries provide important information on the quantum dynamics. We show the dynamical constraints can be organized into three classes: genuine anomalies, fractional topological responses, and integer responses that can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-14 Po-Shen Hsin , Ryohei Kobayashi , Carolyn Zhang

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

Continuous symmetries are fundamental to many scientific and learning problems, yet they are often unknown a priori. Existing symmetry discovery approaches typically search directly in the space of transformation generators or rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pavan Karjol , Kumar Shubham , Prathosh AP

We propose that the symmetry category associated to a 2D quantum field theory with 0-form $G$-symmetry with 't Hooft anomaly $k\in H^4(BG,\mathbb{Z})$ for a large class of Lie groups $G$ is the category of twisted measurable fields of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Qiang Jia , Ran Luo , Jiahua Tian , Yi-Nan Wang , Yi Zhang

We investigate (-1)-form symmetries using the framework of symmetry topological field theories. Previous studies of (-1)-form symmetries have primarily focused on SymTFTs with topological point operators. Here we examine SymTFTs devoid of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Daniel Robbins , Subham Roy

We examine supersymmetric theories with approximately conformal sectors. Without an IR cutoff the theory has a continuum of modes, which are often referred to as "unparticles." Making use of the AdS/CFT correspondence we find that in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-31 Haiying Cai , Hsin-Chia Cheng , Anibal D. Medina , John Terning

The canonical tensor model (CTM) is a tensor model proposing a classically and quantum mechanically consistent model of gravity, formulated as a first-class constraint system with structural similarities to the ADM formalism of general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Dennis Obster , Naoki Sasakura

We classify all unitary modular tensor categories (UMTCs) of rank $\leq 4$. There are a total of 70 UMTCs of rank $\leq 4$ (Note that some authors would have counted as 35 MTCs.) In our convention there are two trivial unitary MTCs…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-09 Eric Rowell , Richard Stong , Zhenghan Wang

One of the central ideas regarding anomalies in topological phases of matter is that they imply the existence of higher-dimensional physics, with an anomaly in a D-dimensional theory typically being cancelled by a bulk (D+1)-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Ethan Lake

An 't Hooft anomaly is the obstruction for gauging symmetries, and it constrains possible low-energy behaviors of quantum field theories by excluding trivial infrared theories. Global inconsistency condition is recently proposed as a milder…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-04 Yuta Kikuchi , Yuya Tanizaki

Modular invariance strongly constrains the spectrum of states of two dimensional conformal field theories. By summing over the images of the modular group, we construct candidate CFT partition functions that are modular invariant and have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Christoph A. Keller , Alexander Maloney