Symmetry defects and orbifolds of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1007/S11005-021-01476-0zbMATH Open1490.81106arXiv1907.04734OpenAlexW2959967437MaRDI QIDQ2114547FDOQ2114547

Lukas Müller, Richard J. Szabo, Lóránt Szegedy

Publication date: 15 March 2022

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe discrete symmetries of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with gauge group $G$ associated to outer automorphisms of $G$, and their corresponding defects. We show that the gauge theory partition function with defects can be computed as a path integral over the space of twisted $G$-bundles, and calculate it exactly. We argue that its weak-coupling limit computes the symplectic volume of the moduli space of flat twisted $G$-bundles on a surface. Using the defect network approach to generalised orbifolds, we gauge the discrete symmetry and construct the corresponding orbifold theory, which is again two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory but with gauge group given by an extension of $G$ by outer automorphisms. With the help of the orbifold completion of the topological defect bicategory of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, we describe the reverse orbifold using a Wilson line defect for the discrete gauge symmetry. We present our results using two complementary approaches: in the lattice regularisation of the path integral, and in the functorial approach to area-dependent quantum field theories with defects via regularised Frobenius algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04734

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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