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Higher-form symmetries in 5d
- Abstract:
- We study higher-form symmetries in 5d quantum field theories, whose charged operators include extended operators such as Wilson line and ’t Hooft operators. We outline criteria for the existence of higher-form symmetries both from a field theory point of view as well as from the geometric realization in M-theory on non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds. A geometric criterion for determining the higher-form symmetry from the intersection data of the Calabi-Yau is provided, and we test it in a multitude of examples, including toric geometries. We further check that the higher-form symmetry is consistent with dualities and is invariant under flop transitions, which relate theories with the same UV-fixed point. We explore extensions to higher-form symmetries in other compactifications of M-theory, such as G2-holonomy manifolds, which give rise to 4d = 1 theories.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/JHEP09(2020)024
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- Publisher:
- Springer
- Journal:
- Journal of High Energy Physics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2020
- Issue:
- 9
- Article number:
- 24
- Publication date:
- 2020-09-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-08-03
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1029-8479
- ISSN:
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1126-6708
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English
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1109706
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pubs:1109706
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2020-09-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Morrison, DR et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Authors. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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