A unified view on symmetry, anomalous symmetry and non-invertible gravitational anomaly

Abstract

In this paper, using 1+1D models as examples, we study symmetries and anomalous symmetries via multi-component partition functions obtained through symmetry twists, and their transformations under the mapping class group of spacetime. This point of view allows us to treat symmetries and anomalous symmetries as non-invertible gravitational anomalies (which are also described by multi-component partition functions, transforming covariantly under the mapping group transformations). This allows us to directly see how symmetry and anomalous symmetry constraint the low energy dynamics of the systems, since the low energy dynamics is directly encoded in the partition functions. More generally, symmetries, anomalous symmetries, non-invertible gravitational anomalies, and their combinations, can all be viewed as constraints on low energy dynamics. In this paper, we demonstrate that they all can be viewed uniformally and systematically as pure (non-invertible) gravitational anomalies.

30 pages, 20 figures, comments are welcome

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