24–28 Aug 2026
Kavli IPMU
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Dimensional reduction of topological operators

28 Aug 2026, 09:00
1h
Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU)

Lecture Hall

Kavli IPMU

5 Chome-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan

Speaker

Rajath Radhakrishnan

Description

While a generic quantum field theory may admit infinitely many topological operators, their topological nature imposes strong consistency conditions on their structure. In this talk, I will introduce the notion of dimensional reduction of topological operators and discuss some constraints it imposes in various spacetime dimensions. I will explain how these constraints severely restrict the possible non-invertible symmetries of QFTs in spacetime dimensions greater than two. This talk is based on arXiv: 2603.03438.

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