Establishes a one-to-one correspondence between states and p-dimensional defects in higher-form Maxwell theories via an extended Kac-Moody algebra generated by conserved charges from mixed anomalies, mapping dressed Wilson-'t Hooft defects to squeezed energy eigenstates.
Comments on Symmetry Operators, Asymptotic Charges and Soft Theorems
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We study the relation between emergent 1-form symmetries and soft photon theorems in QED. We show that in the relevant massive and massless kinematic regimes, described respectively by HQET and SCET, the soft sector admits electric and magnetic 1-form symmetries. We then show that these symmetries give rise to an infinite-dimensional Abelian algebra of ordinary conserved charges, with a central extension. In Minkowski spacetime, suitable choices of hypersurfaces reduce these charges to the familiar asymptotic symmetry charges and imply the leading electric and magnetic soft photon theorems. We further show that the central term in this algebra fixes a contact term appearing in scattering amplitudes involving two soft photons with mixed electric-magnetic polarizations. Finally, we extend the same construction to inclusive observables and apply it to QED photon detectors.
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