On Unitary 2-Group Symmetries
arXiv:2411.05067
Abstract
Global internal symmetries act unitarily on local observables or states of a quantum system. In this note, we aim to generalise this statement to extended observables by considering unitary actions of finite global 2-group symmetries on line operators. We propose that the latter transform in unitary 2-representations of , which we classify up to unitary equivalence. Our results recover the known classification of ordinary 2-representations of finite 2-groups, but provide additional data interpreted as a type of reflection anomaly for .
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