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Quantum symmetries in orbifolds and decomposition

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-18 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new set of modular-invariant phase factors for orbifolds with trivially-acting subgroups, analogous to discrete torsion and generalizing quantum symmetries. After describing their basic properties, we generalize decomposition to include orbifolds with these new phase factors, making a precise proposal for how such orbifolds are equivalent to disjoint unions of other orbifolds without trivially-acting subgroups or one-form symmetries, which we check in numerous examples.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12386,
  title  = {Quantum symmetries in orbifolds and decomposition},
  author = {D. Robbins and E. Sharpe and T. Vandermeulen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12386},
  year   = {2022}
}

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