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most citedGauging Noninvertible Defects: A 2-Categorical Perspective

44 citations · 321 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

math.CT2023★ 9 cited

Fiber 2-Functors and Tambara-Yamagami Fusion 2-Categories

Thibault D. Décoppet, Matthew Yu

We introduce group-theoretical fusion 2-categories, a strong categorification of the notion of a group-theoretical fusion 1-category. Physically speaking, such fusion 2-categories…

hep-th2023★ 16 cited

Semi-Chiral Operators in 4d Gauge Theories

Kasia Budzik, Davide Gaiotto, Justin Kulp +3

We discuss the properties of quarter-BPS local operators in four dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using the formalism of holomorphic twists. We study loop…

math.AT2023★ 1 cited

Adams spectral sequences for non-vector-bundle Thom spectra

Arun Debray, Matthew Yu

When is one of the spectra , , , , , or , there is a standard approach to computi…

math.CT2022★ 44 cited

Gauging Noninvertible Defects: A 2-Categorical Perspective

Thibault D. Décoppet, Matthew Yu

We generalize the notion of an anomaly for a symmetry to a noninvertible symmetry enacted by surface operators using the framework of condensation in 2-categories. Given a multifus…

hep-th2022★ 7 cited

What bordism-theoretic anomaly cancellation can do for U

Arun Debray, Matthew Yu

We perform a bordism computation to show that the U-duality symmetry of 4d supergravity could have an anomaly invisible to perturbative meth…

hep-th2022★ 21 cited

Feynman Diagrams in Four-Dimensional Holomorphic Theories and the Operatope

Kasia Budzik, Davide Gaiotto, Justin Kulp +2

We study a class of universal Feynman integrals which appear in four-dimensional holomorphic theories. We recast the integrals as the Fourier transform of a certain polytope in the…

hep-th2021★ 16 cited

KLT Factorization of Nonrelativistic String Amplitudes

Ziqi Yan, Matthew Yu

We continue our study of the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) factorization of winding string amplitudes. In a toroidal compactification, amplitudes for winding closed string states factor…

hep-th2021★ 6 cited

Gauging Categorical Symmetries in 3d Topological Orders and Bulk Reconstruction

Matthew Yu

We use the language of categorical condensation to give a procedure for gauging nonabelian anyons, which are the manifestations of categorical symmetries in three spacetime dimensi…

hep-th2021

Infrared phases of 2d QCD

Diego Delmastro, Jaume Gomis, Matthew Yu

We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for a 2d QCD theory of massless gluons and left and right chiral quarks in arbitrary representations of a gauge group G to develop…

hep-th2021★ 1 cited

Genus-One data and Anomaly Detection

Matthew Yu

We introduce the notion of genus-one data for theories in (1+1)-dimensions with an anomalous finite group global symmetry. We outline the groups for which genus-one data is effecti…

hep-th2021★ 14 cited

Topological Orders in (4+1)-Dimensions

Theo Johnson-Freyd, Matthew Yu

We investigate the Morita equivalences of (4+1)-dimensional topological orders. We show that any (4+1)-dimensional super (fermionic) topological order admits a gapped boundary cond…

hep-th2021★ 6 cited

KLT Factorization of Winding String Amplitudes

Jaume Gomis, Ziqi Yan, Matthew Yu

We uncover a Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT)-type factorization of closed string amplitudes into open string amplitudes for closed string states carrying winding and momentum in toroidal…

math.CO2020

Filtering cohomology of ordinary and Lagrangian Grassmannians

The 2020 Polymath Jr. REU "q-binomials, the Grassmannian group", : +31

This paper studies, for a positive integer , the subalgebra of the cohomology ring of the complex Grassmannians generated by the elements of degree at most . We build in two…

math.QA2020★ 24 cited

Fusion 2-categories with no line operators are grouplike

Theo Johnson-Freyd, Matthew Yu

We show that if is a fusion -category in which the endomorphism category of the unit object is or , then the indecomposable objects of $\math…

hep-th2020★ 39 cited

Symmetries and Anomalies of (1+1)d Theories: 2-groups and Symmetry Fractionalization

Matthew Yu

We investigate the interactions of discrete zero-form and one-form global symmetries in (1+1)d theories. Focus is put on the interactions that the symmetries can have on each other…

hep-th2020★ 37 cited

T-Duality in Nonrelativistic Open String Theory

Jaume Gomis, Ziqi Yan, Matthew Yu

Nonrelativistic open string theory is defined by a worldsheet theory that produces a Galilean invariant string spectrum and is described at low energies by a nonrelativistic Yang-M…

hep-th2020★ 38 cited

Nonrelativistic Open String and Yang-Mills Theory

Jaume Gomis, Ziqi Yan, Matthew Yu

The classical and quantum worldsheet theory describing nonrelativistic open string theory in an arbitrary nonrelativistic open and closed string background is constructed. We show…

hep-th2019★ 42 cited

Background Field Method for Nonlinear Sigma Models in Nonrelativistic String Theory

Ziqi Yan, Matthew Yu

We continue the study of nonrelativistic string theory in background fields. Nonrelativistic string theory is described by a nonlinear sigma model that maps a relativistic worldshe…