Duality-Symmetry Enhancement in Maxwell Theory
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| author | Meynet, Shani Migliorati, Daniele Savelli, Raffaele Tortora, Michele |
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| contents | Free Maxwell theory on general four-manifolds may, under certain conditions on the background geometry, exhibit holomorphic factorization in its partition function. We show that when this occurs, new discrete symmetries emerge at orbifold points of the conformal manifold. These symmetries, which act only on a sublattice of flux configurations, are not associated with standard dualities, yet they may carry 't Hooft anomalies, potentially causing the partition function to vanish even in the absence of apparent pathologies. We further explore their non-invertible extensions and argue that their anomalies can account for zeros of the partition function at smooth points in the moduli space. |
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| spellingShingle | Duality-Symmetry Enhancement in Maxwell Theory Meynet, Shani Migliorati, Daniele Savelli, Raffaele Tortora, Michele High Energy Physics - Theory Free Maxwell theory on general four-manifolds may, under certain conditions on the background geometry, exhibit holomorphic factorization in its partition function. We show that when this occurs, new discrete symmetries emerge at orbifold points of the conformal manifold. These symmetries, which act only on a sublattice of flux configurations, are not associated with standard dualities, yet they may carry 't Hooft anomalies, potentially causing the partition function to vanish even in the absence of apparent pathologies. We further explore their non-invertible extensions and argue that their anomalies can account for zeros of the partition function at smooth points in the moduli space. |
| title | Duality-Symmetry Enhancement in Maxwell Theory |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20141 |