Understanding Fermionic Generalized Symmetries

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Main Authors: Ambrosino, Federico, Luo, Ran, Wang, Yi-Nan, Zhang, Yi
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Published: 2024
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author Ambrosino, Federico
Luo, Ran
Wang, Yi-Nan
Zhang, Yi
author_facet Ambrosino, Federico
Luo, Ran
Wang, Yi-Nan
Zhang, Yi
contents We explore new aspects of internal fermionic shifting symmetries, present in physical systems such as free Dirac spinors and p-form tensor-spinor fields. We propose a novel procedure to gauge these global symmetries, which also introduces a new Stückelberg mechanism to give a mass to free fermionic fields. Furthermore, we find new magnetic fermionic symmetries in these physical systems whose charged objects are disorder operators. For the case of a Dirac spinor, we discuss an dual description, where the magnetic symmetry acts on the holonomies of a dual 2-form tensor-spinor. Further generalizations such as higher-group-like structures are also discussed.
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spellingShingle Understanding Fermionic Generalized Symmetries
Ambrosino, Federico
Luo, Ran
Wang, Yi-Nan
Zhang, Yi
High Energy Physics - Theory
We explore new aspects of internal fermionic shifting symmetries, present in physical systems such as free Dirac spinors and p-form tensor-spinor fields. We propose a novel procedure to gauge these global symmetries, which also introduces a new Stückelberg mechanism to give a mass to free fermionic fields. Furthermore, we find new magnetic fermionic symmetries in these physical systems whose charged objects are disorder operators. For the case of a Dirac spinor, we discuss an dual description, where the magnetic symmetry acts on the holonomies of a dual 2-form tensor-spinor. Further generalizations such as higher-group-like structures are also discussed.
title Understanding Fermionic Generalized Symmetries
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12301