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Symmetry is a powerful tool for studying dynamics in QFT: it provides selection rules, constrains RG flows, and often simplifies analysis. Currently, our understanding is that the most general form of symmetry is described by categorical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 T. Daniel Brennan , Zhengdi Sun

The excitations referred to as oscillons are long-lived time-dependent field configurations which emerge dynamically from non-linear field theories. Such long-lived solutions are of interest in applications that include systems of Condensed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 R. A. C. Correa , L. P. R. Ospedal , W. de Paula , J. A. Helayël-Neto

Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) is a framework to capture universal features of quantum many-body systems by viewing them as a boundary of topological order in one higher dimension. This has yielded numerous insights in static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-04 Vedant Motamarri , Campbell McLauchlan , Benjamin Béri

We discuss the fermionization of fusion category symmetries in two-dimensional topological quantum field theories (TQFTs). When the symmetry of a bosonic TQFT is described by the representation category $\mathrm{Rep}(H)$ of a semisimple…

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

We generalize the idea of symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) for subsystem symmetry. We propose the 2-foliated BF theory with level $N$ in $(3+1)$d as subsystem SymTFT for subsystem $\mathbb Z_N$ symmetry in $(2+1)$d. Focusing on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Weiguang Cao , Qiang Jia

We formulate minimal SuperGeometric Quantum Field Theories (SG-QFTs) that allow for scalar-fermion field transformations in a manifestly reparameterisation covariant manner. First, we discuss the issue of uniqueness in defining the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Viola Gattus , Apostolos Pilaftsis

Topological quantum matter exhibits a range of exotic phenomena when enriched by subdimensional symmetries. This includes new features beyond those that appear in the conventional setting of global symmetry enrichment. A recently discovered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-07 Po-Shen Hsin , David T. Stephen , Arpit Dua , Dominic J. Williamson

The supersymmetric version of a topological quantum field theory describing flat connections, the super BF-theory, is studied in the superspace formalism. A set of observables related to topological invariants is derived from the curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pirjo Pasanen

Starting from a Unified Field Theory (UFT) proposed previously by the author, the possible fermionic representations arising from the same spacetime are considered from the algebraic and geometrical viewpoint. We specifically demonstrate in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo

We discuss on the possible existence of a supersymmetric invariance in purely fermionic planar systems and its relation to the fermion-boson mapping in three-dimensional quantum field theory. We consider, as a very simple example, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Jose D. Edelstein , Carlos Nunez

The $(D+1)$-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT$_{D+1}$) of a $D$-dimensional absolute quantum field theory (QFT$_D$) provides a topological characterization of symmetry data. In this framework, the SymTFT comes equipped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Oren Bergman , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Daniele Migliorati , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

In this review, we give a pedagogical introduction to a systematic framework for constructing and analyzing supersymmetric field theories on curved spacetime manifolds. The framework is based on the use of off-shell supergravity background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Thomas T. Dumitrescu

We formulate a family of spin Topological Quantum Filed Theories (spin-TQFTs) as fermionic generalization of bosonic Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFTs. They are obtained by gauging $G$-equivariant invertible spin-TQFTs, or, in physics language,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Meng Guo , Kantaro Ohmori , Pavel Putrov , Zheyan Wan , Juven Wang

Topological defects and operators give a far-reaching generalization of symmetries of quantum fields. An auxiliary topological field theory in one dimension higher than the QFT of interest, known as the SymTFT, provides a natural way for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Federico Bonetti , Michele Del Zotto , Ruben Minasian

The symmetry data of a $d$-dimensional quantum field theory (QFT) can often be captured in terms of a higher-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In top down (i.e., stringy) realizations of this structure, the QFT in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-23 Mirjam Cvetič , Ron Donagi , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Ethan Torres

We construct Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) for continuous subsystem symmetries, which are inherently non-Lorentz-invariant. Our framework produces dual bulk descriptions -- gapped foliated and exotic SymTFTs -- that generate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Fabio Apruzzi , Francesco Bedogna , Salvo Mancani

Symmetry under time-reversal appears in the microscopic description of many physical systems. In a quantum mechanical setting it acts as an anti-unitary operator, so does not fall under general analyses based on unitary symmetries. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Lea E. Bottini , Nick G. Jones

We study various non-relativistic field theories with exotic symmetries called subsystem symmetries, which have recently attracted much attention in the context of fractons. We start with a scalar theory called $\phi$-theory in $d+1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Masazumi Honda , Taiichi Nakanishi

We consider string/M-theory reductions on a compact space $X=X^\text{loc} \cup X^\circ$, where $X^\text{loc}$ contains the singular locus, and $X^\circ$ its complement. For the resulting supergravity theories, we construct a suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Dewi S. W. Gould , Ling Lin , Evyatar Sabag

Generalized global symmetries, in particular non-invertible and categorical symmetries, have become a focal point in the recent study of quantum field theory (QFT). In this paper, we investigate aspects of symmetry topological field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Sebastian Franco , Xingyang Yu