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[RBRC Seminar] Noninvertible symmetry and string tensions beyond N-ality

Name: [RBRC Seminar] Noninvertible symmetry and string tensions beyond N-ality
Start: 2022-03-03T09:30:00-05:00
End: 2022-03-03T11:30:00-05:00
Location: No location set

by Mendel Nguyen

Thursday 3 Mar 2022, 09:30 → 11:30 US/Eastern

Description

In confining gauge theories in 3 and 4 dimensions, it is expected that at asymptotically large distances, the list of string tensions should be characterized by center symmetry (N-ality). However, this characterization seems incomplete; lattice simulations indicate that at intermediate distances, the list of string tensions is actually much larger. A similar phenomenon takes place in 2D Yang-Mills, and I will describe how a novel kind of symmetry (noninvertible 1-form symmetry) provides a natural explanation.

Organised by

Vladi Skokov