ZMP Seminar and Colloquium (summer term 2023)

The topic of the ZMP Seminar this term will be Topological symmetries in quantum field theory. For questions about the seminar, please contact Craig Lawrie or Ingo Runkel.

Seminar notes:

Ying-Hong Tham [pdf]
Aaron Hofer [pdf]
Frederico Ambrosino [pdf]
Thomas Voss [pdf]

Some references:

The review "Duality in field theory and statistical systems" by R. Savit (Rev. Mod. Phys. 52 (1980) 453)
"Kramers-Wannier duality from conformal defects" by J. Fröhlich et al. (arXiv:cond-mat/0404051 [cond-mat.stat-mech])
"Non-Invertible Duality Defects in 3+1 Dimensions" by Y. Choi et al. (arXiv:2111.01139 [hep-th])
"Kramers-Wannier-like duality defects in (3+1)d gauge theories" by J. Kaidi et al. (arXiv:2111.01141 [hep-th])
(more to come)

The plan for this term is (subject to change):