ICTP lectures on (non-) invertible generalized symmetries

S Schäfer-Nameki - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
What comprises a global symmetry of a Quantum Field Theory (QFT) has been vastly
expanded in the past 10 years to include not only symmetries acting on higher-dimensional …

Lectures on generalized symmetries

L Bhardwaj, LE Bottini, L Fraser-Taliente, L Gladden… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
These are a set of lecture notes on generalized global symmetries in quantum field theory.
The focus is on invertible symmetries with a few comments regarding non-invertible …

What's done cannot be undone: TASI Lectures on non-invertible symmetries

SH Shao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.00747, 2023 - arxiv.org
We survey recent developments in a novel kind of generalized global symmetry, the non-
invertible symmetry, in diverse spacetime dimensions. We start with several different but …

Symmetry TFTs and anomalies of non-invertible symmetries

J Kaidi, E Nardoni, G Zafrir, Y Zheng - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract It is known that the't Hooft anomalies of invertible global symmetries can be
characterized by an invertible TQFT in one higher dimension. The analogous statement …

Symmetry TFTs for non-invertible defects

J Kaidi, K Ohmori, Y Zheng - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2023 - Springer
Given any symmetry acting on ad-dimensional quantum field theory, there is an associated
(d+ 1)-dimensional topological field theory known as the Symmetry TFT (SymTFT). The …

Generalized charges, part I: Invertible symmetries and higher representations

L Bhardwaj, S Schäfer-Nameki - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
Abstract $ q $-charges describe the possible actions of a generalized symmetry on $ q $-
dimensional operators. In Part I of this series of papers, we describe $ q $-charges for …

Non-invertible Gauss law and axions

Y Choi, HT Lam, SH Shao - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In axion-Maxwell theory at the minimal axion-photon coupling, we find non-
invertible 0-and 1-form global symmetries arising from the naive shift and center symmetries …

Gapped phases with non-invertible symmetries:(1+ 1) d

L Bhardwaj, LE Bottini, D Pajer, S Schäfer-Nameki - SciPost Physics, 2025 - scipost.org
We propose a general framework to characterize gapped infra-red (IR) phases of theories
with non-invertible (or categorical) symmetries. In this paper we focus on (1+ 1) d gapped …

Generalized charges, part II: Non-invertible symmetries and the symmetry TFT

L Bhardwaj, S Schafer-Nameki - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.17159, 2023 - arxiv.org
Consider a d-dimensional quantum field theory (QFT) $\mathfrak {T} $, with a generalized
symmetry $\mathcal {S} $, which may or may not be invertible. We study the action of …

Noninvertible time-reversal symmetry

Y Choi, HT Lam, SH Shao - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In gauge theory, it is commonly stated that time-reversal symmetry only exists at θ= 0 or π for
a 2 π-periodic θ angle. In this Letter, we point out that in both the free Maxwell theory and …