Holographic duals of symmetry broken phases

A Antinucci, F Benini, G Rizi - Fortschritte der Physik, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A novel interpretation of Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) as theories of
gravity is explored by proposing a holographic duality where the bulk SymTFT (with the …

Fate of stringy noninvertible symmetries

JJ Heckman, J McNamara, M Montero, A Sharon… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Noninvertible symmetries in quantum field theory (QFT) generalize the familiar product rule
of groups to a more general fusion rule. In many cases, gauged versions of these …

Celestial Topology, Symmetry Theories, and Evidence for a NonSUSY D3‐Brane CFT

JJ Heckman, M Hübner - Fortschritte der Physik, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Symmetry Theories (SymThs) provide a flexible framework for analyzing the global
categorical symmetries of a DD‐dimensional QFT D QFT_D in terms of a (D+ 1) (D+1) …

SymTh for non-finite symmetries

F Apruzzi, F Bedogna, N Dondi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.14813, 2024 - arxiv.org
Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) is a very convenient tool to study finite
generalized symmetries of a given quantum field theory (QFT). In particular, SymTFTs …

Cornering relative symmetry theories

M Cvetič, R Donagi, JJ Heckman, M Hübner… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …

SymTFT Fans: The Symmetry Theory of 4d N= 4 Super Yang-Mills on spaces with boundaries

IG Etxebarria, J Huertas, AM Uranga - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.02156, 2024 - arxiv.org
The SymTFT construction is an efficient way of studying the symmetries of Quantum Field
Theories. In this paper we initiate the study of the SymTFT construction for interacting …

On the Symmetry TFT of Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory

R Argurio, F Benini, M Bertolini, G Galati… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Three-dimensional Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory has the peculiar property that its one-
form symmetry defects have non-trivial braiding, namely they are charged under the same …

Generalized Symmetries of Non-Supersymmetric Orbifolds

N Braeger, V Chakrabhavi, JJ Heckman… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We determine generalized symmetries for 4D theories engineered via type II strings on non-
supersymmetric orbifold backgrounds $\mathbb {R}^{3, 1}\times\mathbb {R}^ 6/\Gamma …

Higher form symmetries and orbifolds of two-dimensional Yang–Mills theory

L Santilli, RJ Szabo - Letters in Mathematical Physics, 2025 - Springer
We undertake a detailed study of the gaugings of two-dimensional Yang–Mills theory by its
intrinsic charge conjugation 0-form and centre 1-form global symmetries, elucidating their …

Subregion duality, wedge classification and no global symmetries in AdS/CFT

N Bao, Y Jiang, J Naskar - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025 - Springer
A bstract We study various notions of 'subregion duality'in the context of AdS/CFT. We
highlight the differences between the 'background wedge'and the 'operator reconstruction …