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20192021
most citedFusion Category Symmetry I: Anomaly In-Flow and Gapped Phases

128 citations · 209 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

hep-th202172 cited

Fusion Category Symmetry II: Categoriosities at c = 1 and Beyond

Ryan Thorngren, Yifan Wang

We study generalized symmetries of quantum field theories in 1+1D generated by topological defect lines with no inverse. This paper follows our companion paper on gapped phases and…

hep-th2020

Classifying Superconformal Defects in Diverse Dimensions Part I: Superconformal Lines

Nathan B. Agmon, Yifan Wang

We initiate the classification of unitary superconformal defects in unitary superconformal field theories (SCFT) of diverse spacetime dimensions . Our method explor…

hep-th20202 cited

From Super-Yang-Mills on to bosonic Yang-Mills on

Yifan Wang

We study the four-dimensional super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory on the unorientable spacetime manifold . Using supersymmetric localization, we find that…

hep-th2020

Non-perturbative Defect One-Point Functions in Planar Super-Yang-Mills

Shota Komatsu, Yifan Wang

The four dimensional super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory exhibits rich dynamics in the presence of codimension-one conformal defects. The new structure constants of the e…

hep-th2020

Twist Gap and Global Symmetry in Two Dimensions

Nathan Benjamin, Hirosi Ooguri, Shu-Heng Shao +1

We show that every compact, unitary two-dimensional CFT with an abelian conserved current has vanishing twist gap for charged primary fields with respect to the $\mathfrak{u}(1)\ti…

hep-th2020

Taming Defects in Super-Yang-Mills

Yifan Wang

We study correlation functions involving extended defect operators in the four-dimensional super-Yang-Mills (SYM). The main tool is supersymmetric localization with re…