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Symmetry TFTs from String Theory

@inproceedings{Apruzzi2021SymmetryTF,
  title={Symmetry TFTs from String Theory},
  author={Fabio Apruzzi and Federico Bonetti and I{\~n}aki Garc{\'i}a Etxebarria and Saghar Hosseini and Sakura Schafer-Nameki},
  year={2021}
}
We determine the $d+1$ 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 $\partial X$ of the space $X$. Central to this endeavour is a reformulation of supergravity in terms of differential… 

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