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Chern-Weil global symmetries and how quantum gravity avoids them

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021
We draw attention to a class of generalized global symmetries, which we call “Chern-Weil global symmetries,” that arise ubiquitously in gauge theories. The Noether currents of these Chern-Weil global symmetries are given by wedge products of gauge field ...
Ben Heidenreich, Jacob McNamara, Miguel Montero, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius, Irene Valenzuela   +5 more
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Global Symmetries in the Antifield-Formalism [PDF]

Physics Letters B, 1996
In this paper, two things are done. (i) First, it is shown that any global symmetry of a gauge-invariant theory can be extended to the ghosts and the antifields so as to leave invariant the solution of the master-equation (before gauge fixing).
Altevogt, André Wilch, Barnich, Batalin, Batalin, Batalin, Batalin, Battle, Battle, Baulieu, Becchi, Bonneau, Bonneau, Bonneau, Bonora, Brandt, Brandt, Breitenlohner, Bryant, de Wit, Delduc, Dixon, Fisch, Fisch, Fisch, Friedemann Brandt, Gugenheim, Gugenheim, Henneaux, Henneaux, Henneaux, Henneaux, Henneaux, Hirsch, Howe, Kaiser, Maggiore, Maggiore, Maggiore, Maggiore, Marc Henneaux, Piguet, Siegel, Stasheff, Stasheff, van Holten, Vinogradov, Vinogradov, Vinogradov, Voronov, White, White, Zinn-Justin, Zinn-Justin   +53 more
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Comments on global symmetries, anomalies, and duality in (2 + 1)d

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017
We analyze in detail the global symmetries of various (2 + 1)d quantum field theories and couple them to classical background gauge fields. A proper identification of the global symmetries allows us to consider all non-trivial bundles of those background
Francesco Benini, Po-Shen Hsin, Nathan Seiberg   +2 more
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Dark matter and global symmetries

Physics Letters B, 2016
General considerations in general relativity and quantum mechanics are known to potentially rule out continuous global symmetries in the context of any consistent theory of quantum gravity.
Yann Mambrini, Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz   +2 more
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On 2-group global symmetries and their anomalies

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019
In general quantum field theories (QFTs), ordinary (0-form) global symmetries and 1-form symmetries can combine into 2-group global symmetries. We describe this phenomenon in detail using the language of symmetry defects. We exhibit a simple procedure to
Francesco Benini, Clay Córdova, Po-Shen Hsin   +2 more
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Quantum groups as global symmetries

Journal of High Energy Physics
We study quantum field theories which have quantum groups as global internal symmetries. We show that in such theories operators are generically non-local, and should be thought as living at the ends of topological lines.
Barak Gabai, Victor Gorbenko, Jiaxin Qiao, Bernardo Zan, Aleksandr Zhabin   +4 more
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Consequences of Symmetry Fractionalization without 1-Form Global Symmetries [PDF]

Journal of High Energy Physics
A bstract We study the fractionalization of 0-form global symmetries on line operators in theories without 1-form global symmetries. The projective transformation properties of line operators are renormalization group invariant, and we derive constraints which are similar to ...
T. Daniel Brennan, Theodore Jacobson, Konstantinos Roumpedakis   +2 more
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Classifying global symmetries of 6D SCFTs [PDF]

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018
We characterize the global symmetries for the conjecturally complete collection of all six dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs) which are realizable in F-theory and have no frozen singularities.
Peter R. Merkx
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Duality, Generalized Global Symmetries and Jet Space Isometries

Universe, 2021
We revisit universal features of duality in linear and nonlinear relativistic scalar and Abelian 1-form theories with single or multiple fields, which exhibit ordinary or generalized global symmetries.
Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis, Georgios Karagiannis, Arash Ranjbar   +2 more
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Disconnected 0-form and 2-group symmetries

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023
Quantum field theories can have both continuous and finite 0-form symmetries. We study global symmetry structures that arise when both kinds of 0-form symmetries are present. The global structure associated to continuous 0-form symmetries is described by
Lakshya Bhardwaj, Dewi S. W. Gould
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