Symmetry TFTs from String Theory.

Apruzzi, Fabio; Bonetti, Federico; García Etxebarria, Iñaki; Hosseini, Saghar S; Schäfer-Nameki, Sakura (2023). Symmetry TFTs from String Theory. Communications in mathematical physics, 402(1), pp. 895-949. Springer 10.1007/s00220-023-04737-2

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We determine the dimensional topological field theory, which encodes the higher-form symmetries and their 't Hooft anomalies for d-dimensional QFTs obtained by compactifying M-theory on a non-compact space X. The resulting theory, which we call the Symmetry TFT, or SymTFT for short, is derived by reducing the topological sector of 11d supergravity on the boundary of the space X. Central to this endeavour is a reformulation of supergravity in terms of differential cohomology, which allows the inclusion of torsion in cohomology of the space , which in turn gives rise to the background fields for discrete (in particular higher-form) symmetries. We apply this framework to 7d super-Yang Mills, where , as well as the Sasaki-Einstein links of Calabi-Yau three-fold cones that give rise to 5d superconformal field theories. This M-theory analysis is complemented with a IIB 5-brane web approach, where we derive the SymTFTs from the asymptotics of the 5-brane webs. Our methods apply to both Lagrangian and non-Lagrangian theories, and allow for many generalisations.

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