2-group symmetries arise in physics when a 0-form symmetry G [0] and a 1-form symmetry H [1] intertwine, forming a generalised group-like structure. Specialising to the case where both G [0] and H [1] are compact, connected, abelian groups (i.e. tori), we analyse anomalies in such ‘toric 2-group symmetries’ using the cobordism classification. As a warm up example, we use cobordism to study various ’t Hooft anomalies (and the phases to which they are dual) in Maxwell theory defined on non-spin manifolds. For our main example, we compute the 5th spin bordism group of B|𝔾| where 𝔾 is any 2-group whose 0-form and 1-form symmetry parts are both U(1), and |𝔾| is the geometric realisation of the nerve of the 2-group 𝔾. By leveraging a variety of algebraic methods, we show that $$ {\varOmega}_5^{\textrm{Spin}}\left(B\left|\mathbbm{G}\right|\right)\cong \mathbb{Z}/m $$ where m is the modulus of the Postnikov class for 𝔾, and we reproduce the expected physics result for anomalies in 2-group symmetries that appear in 4d QED. Moving down two dimensions, we recap that any (anomalous) U(1) global symmetry in 2d can be enhanced to a toric 2-group symmetry, before showing that its associated local anomaly reduces to at most an order 2 anomaly, when the theory is defined with a spin structure.
{ "_oai": { "updated": "2023-10-24T00:37:31Z", "id": "oai:repo.scoap3.org:78719", "sets": [ "JHEP" ] }, "authors": [ { "affiliations": [ { "country": "Switzerland", "value": "Physics Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland", "organization": "University of Zurich" } ], "surname": "Davighi", "email": "joe.davighi@physik.uzh.ch", "full_name": "Davighi, Joe", "given_names": "Joe" }, { "affiliations": [ { "country": "UK", "value": "Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, U.K.", "organization": "Durham University" } ], "surname": "Lohitsiri", "email": "nakarin.lohitsiri@durham.ac.uk", "full_name": "Lohitsiri, Nakarin", "given_names": "Nakarin" }, { "affiliations": [ { "country": "USA", "value": "Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.", "organization": "Purdue University" } ], "surname": "Debray", "email": "adebray@purdue.edu", "full_name": "Debray, Arun", "given_names": "Arun" } ], "titles": [ { "source": "Springer", "title": "Toric 2-group anomalies via cobordism" } ], "dois": [ { "value": "10.1007/JHEP07(2023)019" } ], "publication_info": [ { "page_end": "54", "journal_title": "Journal of High Energy Physics", "material": "article", "journal_volume": "2023", "artid": "JHEP07(2023)019", "year": 2023, "page_start": "1", "journal_issue": "7" } ], "$schema": "http://repo.scoap3.org/schemas/hep.json", "acquisition_source": { "date": "2023-10-24T00:34:37.657344", "source": "Springer", "method": "Springer", "submission_number": "7734084a720411eea066664922b6a1d4" }, "page_nr": [ 54 ], "license": [ { "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses//by/4.0", "license": "CC-BY-4.0" } ], "copyright": [ { "holder": "The Author(s)", "year": "2023" } ], "control_number": "78719", "record_creation_date": "2023-07-05T00:30:03.708595", "_files": [ { "checksum": "md5:7e8e86e041e6c97207643f7d9df116da", "filetype": "xml", "bucket": "231f9173-f95d-4a2f-b19e-526a635be004", "version_id": "7f76b984-25da-4ded-b358-ba8223fed9c9", "key": "10.1007/JHEP07(2023)019.xml", "size": 15271 }, { "checksum": "md5:45498763d4976bc7cff1f2cb2f448795", "filetype": "pdf/a", "bucket": "231f9173-f95d-4a2f-b19e-526a635be004", "version_id": "a6b6084e-418e-4a63-87a6-1d26b90559c7", "key": "10.1007/JHEP07(2023)019_a.pdf", "size": 924915 } ], "collections": [ { "primary": "Journal of High Energy Physics" } ], "arxiv_eprints": [ { "categories": [ "hep-th", "math.AT" ], "value": "2302.12853" } ], "abstracts": [ { "source": "Springer", "value": "2-group symmetries arise in physics when a 0-form symmetry G [0] and a 1-form symmetry H [1] intertwine, forming a generalised group-like structure. Specialising to the case where both G [0] and H [1] are compact, connected, abelian groups (i.e. tori), we analyse anomalies in such \u2018toric 2-group symmetries\u2019 using the cobordism classification. As a warm up example, we use cobordism to study various \u2019t Hooft anomalies (and the phases to which they are dual) in Maxwell theory defined on non-spin manifolds. For our main example, we compute the 5th spin bordism group of B|\ud835\udd3e| where \ud835\udd3e is any 2-group whose 0-form and 1-form symmetry parts are both U(1), and |\ud835\udd3e| is the geometric realisation of the nerve of the 2-group \ud835\udd3e. By leveraging a variety of algebraic methods, we show that <math> <msubsup> <mi>\u03a9</mi> <mn>5</mn> <mtext>Spin</mtext> </msubsup> <mfenced> <mrow> <mi>B</mi> <mfenced> <mi>G</mi> </mfenced> </mrow> </mfenced> <mo>\u2245</mo> <mi>\u2124</mi> <mo>/</mo> <mi>m</mi> </math> $$ {\\varOmega}_5^{\\textrm{Spin}}\\left(B\\left|\\mathbbm{G}\\right|\\right)\\cong \\mathbb{Z}/m $$ where m is the modulus of the Postnikov class for \ud835\udd3e, and we reproduce the expected physics result for anomalies in 2-group symmetries that appear in 4d QED. Moving down two dimensions, we recap that any (anomalous) U(1) global symmetry in 2d can be enhanced to a toric 2-group symmetry, before showing that its associated local anomaly reduces to at most an order 2 anomaly, when the theory is defined with a spin structure." } ], "imprints": [ { "date": "2023-07-03", "publisher": "Springer" } ] }