ArXiv digest

This arXiv digest contains recent papers that are relevant/interesting for the topics we are currently discussing in the context of the MEMO project.

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Generalized Global Symmetries and Anomalies

 * Burnell, Devakul, Gorantla, Tat Lam, Shao, Anomaly Inflow for Subsystem Symmetries, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09529


 * Onogi, Okuda, Comments on the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem, domain wall, and Berry phase, https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08274


 * Lee, Ohmori, Tachikawa, Matching higher symmetries across Intriligator-Seiberg duality, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05369


 * Bhardwaj, 2-Group Symmetries in Class S, https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06816


 * Kaidi, Komargodski, Ohmori, Seifnashri, Shao, Higher central charges and topological boundaries in 2+1-dimensional TQFTs, https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13091


 * Bhardwaj, Hubner, Schafer-Nameki, Liberating Confinement from Lagrangians: 1-form Symmetries and Lines in 4d N=1 from 6d N=(2,0), https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10265


 * Bhardwaj, Global Form of Flavor Symmetry Groups in 4d N=2 Theories of Class S, https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08730


 * Apruzzi, Bhardwaj, Schafer-Nameki, Oh, The Global Form of Flavor Symmetries and 2-Group Symmetries in 5d SCFTs, https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08724


 * Ben Heidenreich, Jacob McNamara, Miguel Montero, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius, Irene Valenzuela, Non-Invertible Global Symmetries and Completeness of the Spectrum, https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07036


 * Tachikawa, Topological modular forms and the absence of a heterotic global anomaly, https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12211


 * Bhardwaj, Hubner, Schafer-Nameki, 1-form Symmetries of 4d N=2 Class S Theories, https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01693

Higer dimensional SCFTs

 * Tian, Y-N Wang, 5D and 6D SCFTs from $\mathbb{C}^3$ orbifolds, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15129


 * Acharya, Lambert, Najjar, Svanes, and Tian, Gauging Discrete Symmetries of $T_N$-theories in Five Dimensions, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14441


 * Hayashi, Kim, Ohmori, 6d/5d exceptional gauge theories from web diagrams, https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02799


 * Kim^3, Topological vertex for 6d SCFTs with ℤ2-twist, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01030

BPS spectroscopy

 * Longhi, On the BPS spectrum of 5d SU(2) super-Yang-Mills, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01681


 * Kim^3, (Ki-Hong) Lee, Bootstrapping BPS spectra of 5d/6d field theories, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00023

Miscellaneous Interesting

 * Chen, Maldacena, Witten, On the black hole/string transition https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08563


 * Benvenuti, Spezzati, Mildly Flavoring domain walls in SU(N) SQCD: baryons and monopole superpotentials, https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08087


 * Alim, Heidenreich, Rudelius, The Weak Gravity Conjecture and BPS Particles, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08309


 * Geng, Kachru, Karch, Nally, Rayhaun, Fractons and exotic symmetries from branes, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08322


 * Cuomo, Komargodski, Raviv-Moshe, Renormalization Group Flows on Line Defects, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01117


 * Martone, Testing our understanding of SCFTs: a catalogue of rank-2 N=2 theories in four dimensions, https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02443


 * Yifan Wang, Defect $a$-Theorem and $a$-Maximization, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12648

2020
(From mid November, some earlier paper will be also added as we discuss them)

Higher Dimensional Theories

 * Bergman, Rodriguez-Gomez, The Cat's Cradle: Deforming the higher rank E1 and Ê1 theories, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05125


 * Cordova, Dumitrescu, Intriligator, 2-Group Global Symmetries and Anomalies in Six-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.00138.pdf

BPS spectroscopy

 * Banerjee, Longhi, Romo, Exponential BPS graphs and D-brane counting on toric Calabi-Yau threefolds: Part II, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09769


 * Mozgovoy, Pioline, Attractor invariants, brane tilings and crystals, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14358


 * Duan, Ghim, Piljin Yi, 5D BPS Quivers and KK Towers, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.0466


 * Beaujard, Manschot, Pioline Vafa-Witten invariants from exceptional collections, https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14466

Generalized Global Symmetries

 * Heidenreich, McNamara, Montero, Reece, Rudelius and Valenzuela, Chern-Weil Global Symmetries and How Quantum Gravity Avoids Them, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00009


 * Yonekura, Topological violation of global symmetries in quantum gravity, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11868


 * Brennan, Cordova, Axions, Higher-Groups, and Emergent Symmetry, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09600


 * Komardogski, Ohmori, Roumpedakis, Seifnashri, Symmetries and Strings of Adjoint QCD2, https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07567


 * Bergman, Tachikawa, Zafrir, Generalized symmetries and holography in ABJM-type theories, https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05350

Symmetry Protected Topological Phases, Anomaly Theories

 * Thorngren, Yifan Wang, Anomalous Symmetries End at the Boundary, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15861


 * Johnson-Freyd, (3+1)D topological orders with only a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-charged particle, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11165


 * Davighi, Lohitsiri, The algebra of anomaly interplay, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10102

Miscellaneous Interesting

 * Yifan Wang, Surface Defect, Anomalies and b-Extremization, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06574


 * Giombi, Hyman, On the Large Charge Sector in the Critical $O(N)$ Model at Large $N$, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11622


 * Bzowski, Festuccia, Proch\'azka, Consistency of supersymmetric 't Hooft anomalies, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09978


 * Perlmutter, Rastelli, Vafa, Valenzuela, A CFT Distance Conjecture, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10040


 * Hsin, Iliesiu, Yang, A violation of global symmetries from replica wormholes and the fate of black hole remnants, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09444