{"total":18,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.22912","ref_index":60,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Sharpening the Supersymmetric Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-21T18:00:32+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The paper verifies the bound fS/|n| ≤ (π/(2 κ_d)) sqrt((d-1)/(d-2)) for axion instantons and sharpens it to fS/|n| ≤ (1/κ_4) sqrt(7/2) for supersymmetric 4d instantons using three approaches in the string landscape.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.10416","ref_index":37,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Infrared spectra of some strongly--coupled chiral gauge theories","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-11T11:54:06+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Analyses of specific chiral gauge theories using generalized symmetries and anomaly matching yield rich infrared effective theories, RG flows, and light spectra.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Seiberg, \"Coupling a QFT to a TQFT and Duality\", JHEP04, 001 (2014) [arXiv:1401.0740 [hep-th]]. 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The more recent interest in the subject was driven by the improved understanding of generalized symmetries and especially of their anomalies, emerging after [12, 13]. The con- nection to the old picture is that 't Hooft twists [1] are now seen as a topological background of the2-formZ N gauge field gauging theZ (1) N 1-form center symmetry; this interpretation helps identify various 't Hooft anomalies involvingZ(1) N . In particular, the understanding of anomalies of generalized symmetries in the language"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.18702","ref_index":3,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Confinement in a finite duality cascade","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-20T18:02:02+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Holographic checks confirm area-law confinement, anomaly-matching domain walls via 2+1D TQFT, and unstable axionic strings implying no massless axions in this finite duality cascade model.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"A Recap of the gauge theory and the dual supergravity solution 18 B Asymptotic expansions ofSat large and smallL21 C Tension of the domain walls 24 1 Introduction Confinement is a very interesting physical property of four-dimensional non-abelian gauge theories [1,2]. It manifests itself in the most pristine fashion in pure Yang-Mills theories. In such theories, there is a single gapped vacuum (forθ‰π[3]). The non-trivial low-energy dynamics can be probed by heavy external matter fields that will experience a linearly rising potential, with the slope being a function of their representation under the gauge group. This is equivalent to saying that Wilson loops typically have an area law. The exception is given by Wilson loops or probes in the adjoint representation, which can be screened by the gauge"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.17848","ref_index":64,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Adiabatic continuity in a partially reduced twisted Eguchi-Kawai model with one adjoint Dirac fermion","primary_cat":"hep-lat","submitted_at":"2026-04-20T05:58:46+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Simulations of a partially reduced twisted Eguchi-Kawai model with one adjoint Dirac fermion show the Polyakov loop remains near zero for periodic boundary conditions as the compactified circle shrinks, supporting adiabatic continuity of the confined phase.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Del Debbio, \"The conformal window on the lattice,\"PoSLattice2010(2014) 004, arXiv:1102.4066 [hep-lat]. 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Their breaking is also useful for classifying vacua and detecting phase transitions such as the deconfinement transition in gauge theory, seee.g.[5, 6]. A parallel line of research has focused on the study ofasymptotic symmetries. Bottom-up studies of holographic dualities have resulted in the discovery of infinite- dimensional asymptotic symmetry algebras in a variety of settings. They underlie the soft theorems that capture the universal infrared physics of scattering amplitudes in asymptotically flat spacetimes [7]."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.08736","ref_index":33,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Exact SL(2,Z)-Structure of Lattice Maxwell Theory with $\\theta$-term in Modified Villain Formulation","primary_cat":"hep-lat","submitted_at":"2026-04-09T20:00:03+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The ultra-local modified Villain action for lattice Maxwell theory with theta term has exact SL(2,Z) duality, with Wilson and 't Hooft loops transforming up to a phase from self-linking.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Tata,Higher cup products on hypercubic lattices: Application to lattice models of topological phases,J. Math. Phys.64(2023) 091902 [2106.05274]. [31] A. 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[39] Avner Karasik, \"On anomalies and gauging of U(1) non-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2602.09105","ref_index":132,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Generalized Families of QFTs","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-02-09T19:00:17+00:00","verdict":null,"verdict_confidence":null,"novelty_score":null,"formal_verification":null,"one_line_summary":null,"context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"4d SU(N) Yang-Mills, allowingθto be spacetime dependent (such as in a background axion field), the domain wall configuration indeed carries world-volume 't Hooft anomaly [102, 131]: Aw.v. = π(N−1) N Z P(B2). (4.5) This can be matched e.g. if theZ (1) N global symmetry is spontaneously broken on the domain wall and theSU(N) gauge theory deconfines there. Also,θ→θ+ 2π, it sweeps through θ=πwhere there is the mixed anomaly of [132] betweenZ (1) N and time-reversal, which is consistent with the anomaly of [3, 4]. 4.1 Anomalies of Higher Families Families of QFTs with higher symmetry acting on the space of coupling constants can likewise have anomalies. A higher family anomaly is encoded by the partition function being a non- trivial section over the reduced parameter spaceB/Λ = Cθ×B∇G"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2511.15783","ref_index":38,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Automorphism in Gauge Theories: Higher Symmetries and Transversal Non-Clifford Logical Gates","primary_cat":"cond-mat.str-el","submitted_at":"2025-11-19T19:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Automorphisms of gauge groups extend to higher or non-invertible symmetries in topological gauge theories and enable transversal non-Clifford gates in 2+1d Z_N qudit Clifford stabilizer models for N greater than or equal to 3.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2510.15518","ref_index":91,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Photonic Exceptional Points in Holography and QCD","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2025-10-17T10:44:27+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A holographic toy model is constructed for third-order photonic exceptional points in ternary microrings, with numerical spectra, phase rigidity, and connections to the theta-vacuum of QCD via topological structures and a second-order EP in a perturbed model.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2509.24680","ref_index":25,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Lepton number violating signals of a parity symmetric model at $\\mu$TRISTAN","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2025-09-29T12:16:13+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"In a parity-symmetric model with TeV-scale lepton number violation, a 10 TeV μ+μ+ collider can probe W' boson masses up to 16 TeV via on-shell and off-shell lepton number violating production.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2509.12305","ref_index":12,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Phases of 2d Gauge Theories and Symmetric Mass Generation","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2025-09-15T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Abelian 2d gauge theories show rich phase structure with c=1 and c=1/2 critical lines; chiral versions realize symmetric mass generation for fermions.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2307.07547","ref_index":88,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Lectures on Generalized Symmetries","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2023-07-14T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":1.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Lecture notes that systematically introduce higher-form symmetries, SymTFTs, higher-group symmetries, and related concepts in QFT using gauge theory examples.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"and is referred to as thePontryagin dual groupof G(p). Phrased in this language, the charge carried by a (irreducible)p-dimensional operator under ap-form symmetry groupG(p) is an element of the Pontryagin dual groupˆG(p). Let us discuss some examples: • ForG(p) =U(1), we haveˆG(p) = Z, namely the group formed by integers under addition. If we represent the elements ofG(p) as g =eiα, α ∈[0, 2π) (2.67) 19 the possible homomorphisms are ϕ(g) =gq =eiqα∈U(1), q ∈Z. (2.68) • ForG(p) = ZN, we have ˆG(p) = ZN, namely the group formed by integers moduloN under addition. If we represent the elements ofG(p) as g =e 2πiα N , α ∈{0, 1,···N−1}, (2.69) the possible homomorphisms are ϕ(g) =gq =e 2πiqα N , q ∈{0, 1,···N−1}. (2.70) • Generalizing the previous example, ifG(p) is afinite abelian group, then we have ˆG(p)∼=G(p) (2.71) This can actually be derived as a consequence of the previous example. For a finite abelian group, we have G(p)∼= n∏ i=1 ZNi, N i∈N (2.72) and consequently ˆG(p)∼= n∏ i=1 ˆZNi ∼= n∏ i=1 ZNi (2.73) Double Pontryagin Duality An important property of Pontryagin duals that we will use later is that taking the Pontryagin dual twice is equivalent to not taking the Pontryagin dual at all. More precisely, there exists a canonical isomorphism ˆˆG(p)∼=G(p) (2.74) for any groupG(p). Indeed, an elementg∈G(p) defines a homomorphism hg : ˆG(p)→U(1) (2.75) taking the form hg(ϕ) =ϕ(g)∈U(1), ϕ ∈ˆG(p). (2.76) 20 Special Case: U(1) p-Form Symmetry. Generalizing example 2.1, the continuity equa- tion for the Noether current of aU(1) p-form symmetry is modified in the presence of a p-dimensional operator ofO(Mp) of chargeq∈Z; O(Mp)djd−p−1 =qδd−p(Mp)O(Mp), (2.77) where δd−p(Mp) is the (d−p)-form associated to delta function onMp. Using this fact and following steps similar to those in derivation (2.37), we can compute the linking action (2.63) ofp-form symmetry withO(Mp) to be Ug ( Sd−p−1 ) O(Mp) = exp (iqα)O(Mp). (2.78) Example 2.3: Higher-Form Charges in the Maxwel"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2205.09545","ref_index":26,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Snowmass White Paper: Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory and Beyond","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2022-05-19T13:15:29+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"This review summarizes transformative examples of generalized symmetries in QFT and their applications to anomalies and dynamics.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"29 This point of view is conceptually similar to that of symmetry protected topological phases in condensed matter physics, where a trivially gapped system in bulk gives rise to anomalous edge modes on its boundary. From a more abstract perspective, the anomaly theory generalizes the concept of projective representations, which describe simple anomalies in quantum mechanics (see e.g. [26]), to the quantum field theory setting. The anomaly theory can be taken as the definition of the anomaly, and this notation can be applied to generalized symmetries. The anomaly theory Ad+1 has been significantly developed and applied in recent years in the high energy, condensed matter, and mathematics communities. This includes results for familiar continuous global symmetries [214-220], discrete global"}],"limit":50,"offset":0}