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Higher form symmetries and M-theory (2020)
Journal Article
Albertini, F., Del Zotto, M., García Etxebarria, I., & Hosseini, S. S. (2020). Higher form symmetries and M-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(12), Article 203. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282020%29203

We discuss the geometric origin of discrete higher form symmetries of quantum field theories in terms of defect groups from geometric engineering in M-theory. The flux non-commutativity in M-theory gives rise to (mixed) ’t Hooft anomalies for the def... Read More about Higher form symmetries and M-theory.

Nothing is certain in string compactifications (2020)
Journal Article
García Etxebarria, I., Montero, M., Sousa, K., & Valenzuela, I. (2020). Nothing is certain in string compactifications. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282020%29032

A bubble of nothing is a spacetime instability where a compact dimension collapses. After nucleation, it expands at the speed of light, leaving “nothing” behind. We argue that the topological and dynamical mechanisms which could protect a compactific... Read More about Nothing is certain in string compactifications.

Higher form symmetries of Argyres-Douglas theories (2020)
Journal Article
Del Zotto, M., Etxebarria, I. G., & Hosseini, S. S. (2020). Higher form symmetries of Argyres-Douglas theories. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(10), Article 056. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282020%29056

We determine the structure of 1-form symmetries for all 4d N = 2 theories that have a geometric engineering in terms of type IIB string theory on isolated hypersurface singularities. This is a large class of models, that includes Argyres-Douglas theo... Read More about Higher form symmetries of Argyres-Douglas theories.