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September 19, 20222:00 pm – 3:00 pm (CDT)

Trivially-Acting Symmetries as Topological Operators

Speaker:

Thomas Vandermeulen (Texas A&M University)

Host:

Katrin Becker

Location:

Address:

Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy

College Station, Texas 77843

Event Details

The modern view of symmetries is that they should be regarded as topological operators which act on the states of a theory.  We show that this formulation can be extended to trivially-acting symmetries, which are naturally described as a mix of line and point operators.  This allows us to refine decomposition by tracking how symmetries distribute themselves under gauging.

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