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Hauptverfasser: Bah, Ibrahima, Jefferson, Patrick, Roumpedakis, Konstantinos, Waddleton, Thomas
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08858
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  • We argue that topological operators for continuous symmetries written in terms of currents need regularization, which effectively gives them a small but finite width. The regulated operator is a finite tension object which fluctuates. In the zero-width limit these fluctuations freeze, recovering the properties of a topological operator. When gravity is turned on, the zero-width limit becomes ill-defined, thereby prohibiting the existence of topological operators.