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Fractons with Twisted Boundary Conditions and Their Symmetries
Tom Rudelius, Nathan Seiberg, Shu-Heng Shao
We study several exotic systems, including the X-cube model, on a flat three-torus with a twist in the -plane. The ground state degeneracy turns out to be a sensitive function…
Chern-Weil Global Symmetries and How Quantum Gravity Avoids Them
Ben Heidenreich, Jacob McNamara, Miguel Montero +3
We draw attention to a class of generalized global symmetries, which we call "Chern-Weil global symmetries," that arise ubiquitously in gauge theories. The Noether currents of thes…
Infinite Distance and Zero Gauge Coupling in 5d Supergravity
Ben Heidenreich, Tom Rudelius
In this note, we prove that for all five-dimensional supergravities arising from M-theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold, points of vanishing gauge coupling lie at infinite…
Topological Operators and Completeness of Spectrum in Discrete Gauge Theories
Tom Rudelius, Shu-Heng Shao
In many gauge theories, the existence of particles in every representation of the gauge group (also known as completeness of the spectrum) is equivalent to the absence of one-form…
General Prescription for Global U(1)'s in 6D SCFTs
Fabio Apruzzi, Marco Fazzi, Jonathan J. Heckman +2
We present a general prescription for determining the global U(1) symmetries of six-dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs). We use the quiver-like gauge theory descri…