20.500.12556/DKUM-93996 Fluxbranes, generalized symmetries, and Verlinde’s metastable monopole The stringy realization of generalized symmetry operators involves wrapping “branes at infinity”. We argue that in the case of continuous (as opposed to discrete) symmetries, the appropriate objects are fluxbranes. We use this perspective to revisit the phase structure of Verlinde’s monopole, a proposed particle satisfies the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) condition when gravity is decoupled, but is non-BPS and metastable when gravity is switched on. Geometrically, this monopole is obtained from branes wrapped on locally stable but globally trivial cycles of a compactification geometry. The fluxbrane picture allows us to characterize electric (respectively magnetic) confinement (respectively screening) in the 4D theory as a result of monopole decay. In the presence of the fluxbrane, this decay also creates lower-dimensional fluxbranes, which in the field theory is interpreted as the creation of an additional topological field theory sector. quantum gravity 4D theory fluxbranes generalized symmetries Verlinde’s metastable monopole kvantna gravitacija 4D teorija simetrije monopoli true false true American Physical Society Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-07-29 03:11:35 2025-11-11 14:34:12 2025-11-12 03:36:33 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Str. 1-12 št. 4, št. članka 046007 Letn. 109 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-10-08 2024-01-11 2024-02-08 530.145 192741891 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.046007 2470-0029 Cvetic_2024_Fluxbranes_generalized_symmetries.pdf Cvetic_2024_Fluxbranes_generalized_symmetries.pdf 1 3044B2C1E8FB17A83E71456A95686075 909cca70957f10c02c25b7c1aac1bf8e1eac73df4a1e6da42c3300cbda6f355e e29022a5-bf02-11f0-9c6a-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=200558 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.046007 0 f8fc7d67-6c18-11f0-aa9e-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=194363 Univerza v Mariboru 0 0 0