TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.4.116
TI  - Symmetry operators and gravity
PY  - 2025/10/29
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.4.116
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 19
IS  - 4
SP  - 116
A1  - Bah, Ibrahima
AU  - Jefferson, Patrick
AU  - Roumpedakis, Konstantinos
AU  - Waddleton, Thomas
AB  - We argue that topological operators for continuous symmetries written in terms of currents need regularization, which effectively gives them a small but finite width. The regulated operator is a finite tension object which fluctuates. In the zero-width limit these fluctuations freeze, recovering the properties of a topological operator. When gravity is turned on, the zero-width limit becomes ill-defined, thereby prohibiting the existence of topological operators.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.4.116,
	title={{Symmetry operators and gravity}},
	author={Ibrahima Bah and Patrick Jefferson and Konstantinos Roumpedakis and Thomas Waddleton},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={19},
	pages={116},
	year={2025},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.4.116},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.4.116},
}