{"total":14,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2607.01322","ref_index":145,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Wormholes as red herrings: reflection positivity and the reconstruction of unitary quantum field theories","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-07-01T18:00:01+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Unitary QFTs are determined up to unitary isomorphism by closed-manifold partition functions; every reflection-positive partition function comes from a unitary QFT, so spatial wormholes do not break Hilbert-space factorization once the full charged spectrum is included.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"ifold to be finite, which includes the thermal partition functions as a special case. Thus, we exclude theories with continuous spectra, such as the Liouville CFT ind= 2, as well as theories with unbounded Hagedorn growth of the spectrum. We also exclude non-compact TQFTs, such as the BF theories arising from the so-called \"flat gauging\" of continuous gauge groups (see, e.g., [145, 146]). One may worry that the closed-manifold partition function of a physical QFT is typ- ically UV divergent, and thus requires regularization and renormalization. Our notion of 26We thank Luuk Stehouwer for this observation. 27IfBhappens to admit anX-isomorphismR: B→B, then the combination bR bT: eHB → eHB is more closely related to the CRT operator traditionally studied on Minkowski space, particularly whenRreflects"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.05543","ref_index":105,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Notes on (-2)-form symmetries","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-04T00:58:08+00:00","verdict":"CONDITIONAL","verdict_confidence":"MODERATE","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"(-2)-form symmetries are realized as non-genuine defects in the Symmetry TFT and relate theories with different anomaly or associator data.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.30354","ref_index":27,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Quiver Approach to Symmetry Theories","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-28T17:59:59+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"An algebraic method using the path algebra of quivers extracts symmetry anomaly data for 5D SCFTs engineered from M-theory on Calabi-Yau cones.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.25821","ref_index":28,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Categorical Symmetries via Operator Algebras","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-28T16:30:42+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The symmetry category of a 2D QFT with G-symmetry and anomaly k equals the twisted Hilbert space category Hilb^k(G), whose Drinfeld center is the twisted representation category of the conjugation groupoid C*-algebra, enabling braiding computations in the 3D SymTFT.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Zhang,SymTFT Approach for Mixed States with Non-Invertible Symmetries,2507.05350. 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B871(2025) 140010, [arXiv:2402."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.14275","ref_index":53,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Generalized Complexity Distances and Non-Invertible Symmetries","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-15T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Non-invertible symmetries define quantum gates with generalized complexity distances, and simple objects in symmetry categories turn out to be computationally complex in concrete 4D and 2D QFT examples.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Zhang, \"Intermediate defect groups, polarization pairs, and noninvertible duality defects,\"Phys. Rev. D109no. 2, (2024) 026005, arXiv:2306.11783 [hep-th]. [51] F. Baume, J. J. Heckman, M. H¨ ubner, E. Torres, A. P. Turner, and X. 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Niro, \"On the symmetry TFT of Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory,\"JHEP07(2024) 130,arXiv:2404."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.09126","ref_index":6,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Lattice Realizations of Flat Gauging and T-duality Defects at Any Radius","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-10T09:09:23+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":8.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Modified Villain lattice realizations of flat-gauged interfaces and T-duality defects in the 2D compact boson are constructed at arbitrary radii, yielding non-compact edge modes with continuous spectrum and infinite quantum dimension.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Shao,What's Done Cannot Be Undone: TASI Lectures on Non-Invertible Symmetries,inTheoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics 2023: Aspects of Symmetry. 8, 2023. arXiv:2308.00747 [hep-th]. 28 [5] S. 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B871(2025) 140010, arXiv:2402."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2603.12323","ref_index":25,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"On the SymTFTs of Finite Non-Abelian Symmetries","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-03-12T18:00:02+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Constructs BF-like 3D SymTFT Lagrangians for finite non-Abelian groups presented as extensions, yielding surface-attaching non-genuine line operators and Drinfeld-center fusion rules.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2602.11696","ref_index":75,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Symmetry Spans and Enforced Gaplessness","primary_cat":"cond-mat.str-el","submitted_at":"2026-02-12T08:22:02+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":8.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Symmetry spans enforce gaplessness when a symmetry E embedded into two larger symmetries C and D has no compatible gapped phase that restricts from both.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"[72] Devon Stockall and Matthew Yu, \"Geometric Categories for Continuous Gauging,\" (2025), arXiv:2511.08254 [math-ph]. 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Schafer-Nameki, and Y.-N. Wang, \"Symmetry TFTs for 3d QFTs from M-theory,\"JHEP02(2023) 226,arXiv:2210.03703 [hep-th]. [60] Z. Sun and Y. Zheng, \"When are Duality Defects Group-Theoretical?,\"arXiv:2307.14428 [hep-th]. [61] T. D. Brennan and Z. Sun, \"A SymTFT for continuous symmetries,\"JHEP12(2024) 100, arXiv:2401.06128 [hep-th]. [62] A. Antinucci, C. Copetti, and S. Schafer-Nameki, \"SymTFT for (3+1)d Gapless SPTs and Obstructions to Confinement,\"SciPost Phys.18(2025) 114,arXiv:2408.05585 [hep-th]. [63] A. Antinucci and F. Benini, \"Anomalies and gauging of U(1) symmetries,\"Phys."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2602.03926","ref_index":27,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"The Line, the Strip and the Duality Defect","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-02-03T19:00:00+00:00","verdict":"CONDITIONAL","verdict_confidence":"MODERATE","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The XY-plaquette model is claimed to possess a continuous SO(2) non-invertible duality symmetry at arbitrary coupling, realized by open condensation defects in its symmetry TFT.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2508.00050","ref_index":14,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Total instanton restriction via multiverse interference: Noncompact gauge theories and (-1)-form symmetries","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2025-07-31T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Continuous-universe decomposition plus (-1)-form gauging eliminates every instanton in local QFTs, realized explicitly by switching 2D U(1) gauge theories to noncompact R gauge groups.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"an abelian 𝑝-form symmetry, it involves a ( 𝑝 + 1)-form gauge field constrained to be flat. In the special case of a (−1)-form symmetry, the relevant \"background gauge field\" is a scalar field 𝜙 with 𝑑𝜙 = 0, i.e., a locally constant parameter over each connected component of spacetime. The path integral then integrates over such 𝜙. See, for instance, [14, section 3.2] and [15], where this idea is explored from the perspective of SymTFTs with continuous𝑈 (1) 𝑝-form symmetries. Topological gauging becomes particularly relevant in our context because we are interested in gauging continuous symmetries that are dual to (or in some cases, themselves) quantum symmetries. A classic setting for quantum symmetries arises in orbifolds (see e."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2504.11449","ref_index":27,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"SymTFT construction of gapless exotic-foliated dual models","primary_cat":"cond-mat.str-el","submitted_at":"2025-04-15T17:57:58+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Develops a Mille-feuille SymTFT construction that generates foliated and exotic dual bulk theories realizing gapless boundary models with spontaneous continuous subsystem symmetry breaking, including duals of the XY plaquette and XYZ cube models.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null}],"limit":50,"offset":0}