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

DOI10.1007/S11005-021-01476-0MaRDI QIDQ2114547zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lukas Müller, Richard J. Szabo, Lóránt Szegedy

Publication date 15 March 2022

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

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)

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.

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