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6 papers

hep-th2026

Hilbert Space and Defect Hilbert Spaces Associated with Categorical Symmetries

Qiang Jia, Jiahua Tian

We present a quantum mechanical approach to understanding the Hilbert space and the defect Hilbert spaces associated with line operators of BF theory combined with level- Chern-…

hep-th2026

Categorical Symmetries via Operator Algebras

Qiang Jia, Ran Luo, Jiahua Tian +2

We propose that the symmetry category associated to a 2D quantum field theory with 0-form -symmetry with 't Hooft anomaly for a large class of Lie grou…

hep-th2026

Candidate Gaugings of Categorical Continuous Symmetry

Qiang Jia, Cheng Ma, Jiahua Tian

Different gaugings of the global symmetry of a quantum field theory are closely related to its various phases. In this work, we study candidate gaugeable symmetries by analyzing ca…

hep-th2025

Anomaly of Continuous Symmetries from Topological Defect Network

Qiang Jia, Ran Luo, Jiahua Tian +2

We show that the 't Hooft anomaly of a quantum field theory with continuous flavor symmetry can be detected from rearrangements of the topological defect webs implementing the glob…

hep-th2025

Categorical Continuous Symmetry

Qiang Jia, Ran Luo, Jiahua Tian +2

We define the symmetry category in 1+1d for continuous 0-form -symmetry to be , the category of skyscraper sheaves of finite dimensional vector spaces with f…

hep-th2025

Symmetry, Symmetry Topological Field Theory and von Neumann Algebra

Qiang Jia, Jiahua Tian

We study the additivity and Haag duality of the von Neumann algebra of a quantum field theory with 0-form (and the dual -form) (non)-invertible glo…