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We study properties of boundary conditions (BCs) in theories with categorical (or non-invertible) symmetries. We describe how the transformation properties, or (generalized) charges, of BCs are captured by topological BCs of Symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Christian Copetti , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We study the structure of local algebras in relativistic conformal quantum field theory with phase boundaries. Phase boundaries are instances of a more general notion of boundaries that give rise to a variety of algebraic structures. These…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Marcel Bischoff , Yasuyuki Kawahigashi , Roberto Longo , Karl-Henning Rehren

From the relativistic law of motion we attempt to deduce the field theories corresponding to the force law being linear and quadratic in 4-velocity of the particle. The linear law leads to the vector gauge theory which could be the abelian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Parampreet Singh , Naresh Dadhich

We analyze the defect scaling Lee-Yang model from the perturbed defect conformal field theory (DCFT) point of view. First the defect Lee-Yang model is solved by calculating its structure constants from the sewing relations. Integrable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Zoltan Bajnok , Laszlo Hollo , Gerard Watts

In this paper and a companion one, we study the effect of integrable line defects on entanglement entropy in massive integrable field theories in 1+1 dimensions. The current paper focuses on topological defects that are purely transmissive.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Yunfeng Jiang

We present a large and universal class of new boundary states which break part of the chiral symmetry in the underlying bulk theory. Our formulas are based on coset constructions and they can be regarded as a non-abelian generalization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas Quella , Volker Schomerus

We review investigations on defects in systems described by real scalar fields in (D,1) space-time dimensions. We first work in one spatial dimension, with models described by one and two real scalar fields, and in higher dimensions. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Bazeia , J. Menezes , R. Menezes

A systematic way of generating sets of local boundary conditions on the gauge fields in a path integral is presented. These boundary conditions are suitable for one--loop effective action calculations on manifolds with boundary and for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ian G. Moss , Pedro J. Silva

A procedure is described to associate fibre bundles over the circle to two- dimensional theories with defects which have their field equations and defects described by a zero curvature condition.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-04 E. P. Gueuvoghlanian

We develop an effective theory for biased tracers formulated at the level of the Boltzmann equation, providing a unified description of density and velocity bias. We introduce a general effective collision term in the tracer Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tomohiro Fujita , Tomo Takahashi , Sora Yamashita

We study half-BPS line defects in $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories using the bootstrap approach. We concentrate on local excitations constrained to the defect, which means the system is a $1d$ defect CFT with $\mathfrak{osp}(4^*|2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We calculated bound states in the quantum field theoretical approach. Using the Wick-Cutkosky model and an extended version of this model (in which a particle with finite mass is exchanged) we have calculated the bound states in the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. van Iersel , B. L. G. Bakker , F. Pijlman

In the context of boundary conformal field theory, we derive a sum rule that relates two and three point functions of the displacement operator. For four dimensional conformal field theory with a three dimensional boundary, this sum rule in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-28 Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

We investigate models described by real scalar fields, searching for defect structures in the presence of interactions which explicitly violate Lorentz and CPT symmetries. We first deal with a single field, and we investigate a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 M. N. Barreto , D. Bazeia , R. Menezes

The master fields for the large $N$ limit of matrix models and gauge theory are constructed. The master fields satisfy to standard equations of relativistic field theory but fields are quantized according to a new rule. To define the master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Ya. Aref'eva , I. V. Volovich

We apply the concept of reflection-transmission (RT) algebra, originally developed in the context of integrable systems in 1+1 space-time dimensions, to the study of finite temperature quantum field theory with impurities in higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 M. Mintchev , P. Sorba

We present a survey of recent results of the functional analysis allowing to solve PDEs in a large class of domains with irregular boundaries. We extend the previously introduced concept of admissible domains with a d-set boundary on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Anna Rozanova-Pierrat

We apply the ideas of effective field theory to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Utilizing an artificial boundary of ignorance as a calculational tool, we develop the effective theory using boundary conditions to encode short-ranged…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 David M. Jacobs , Matthew Jankowski

We study the consequences of the presence of a boundary in topological field theories in various dimensions. We characterize, univocally and on very general grounds, the field content and the symmetries of the actions which live on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-17 Andrea Amoretti , Alessandro Braggio , Giacomo Caruso , Nicola Maggiore , Nicodemo Magnoli

We show that very simple theories of abelian gauge fields with a cubic Chern-Simons term in 5d have an infinite number of non-invertible co-dimension two defects. They arise by dressing the symmetry operators of the broken electric 1-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Jeremias Aguilera Damia , Riccardo Argurio , Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas