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GSO Defects: IIA/IIB Walls and the Surprisingly Stable -Brane
Jonathan J. Heckman, Jacob McNamara, Julio Parra-Martinez +1
The recently proposed Swampland Cobordism Conjecture predicts the existence of new non-supersymmetric objects which supplement the spectrum of low-energy gravitational effective fi…
Cornering Relative Symmetry Theories
Mirjam CvetiÄ, Ron Donagi, Jonathan J. Heckman +2
The symmetry data of a -dimensional quantum field theory (QFT) can often be captured in terms of a higher-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In top down (i.…
Top Down Approach to Topological Duality Defects
Jonathan J. Heckman, Max Hubner, Ethan Torres +2
Topological duality defects arise as codimension one generalized symmetry operators in quantum field theories (QFTs) with a duality symmetry. Recent investigations have shown that…
R7-Branes as Charge Conjugation Operators
Markus Dierigl, Jonathan J. Heckman, Miguel Montero +1
R7-branes are a class of recently discovered non-supersymmetric real codimension-two duality defects in type IIB string theory predicted by the Swampland Cobordism Conjecture. For…