Abstract:With the advance in sensors, data become ubiquitous. To make sense of the data we have to solve higher and higher dimensional problems that would seem intractable to solve. However, many high-dimensional problems have solutions that live in low-dimensional spaces. Sparsity is a way to exploit the low-dimensional structure of solutions to obtain feasible solution methods for high-dimens...
AbstractI will describe a uniform construction to gauge a discrete invertible symmetry S in possibly non-topological (D+1)-dimensional quantum systems with higher-categorical and possibly non-invertible symmetries. The symmetry in the theory obtained after gauging contains a sub-category of universal topological defects, which we term as Theta defects. These defects are universal in the sense t...