アノマリーマッチングに基づくゲージ理論と相構造の非摂動的研究

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During this fiscal year, I focused on two main research activities:(1) With collaborators, I investigated the possibility of color confinement resulting from perturbative contributions. We explored the use of an imaginary angular velocity at a high temperature, which led to a perturbatively confined phase continuously connected to the conventional nonperturbative confined phase, as well as a perturbative deconfinement-confinement phase transition. This discovery establishes a perturbative laboratory for confinement physics where we can investigate many confinement-related phenomena perturbatively.(2) With collaborators, I challenged the conventional understanding of the conservation law of topological solitons. While the prevailing view is that solitonic symmetry is determined by homotopy groups, we discovered a far more sophisticated algebraic structure. We found a highly unconventional selection rule for the correlation function between line and point defect operators. Solitonic symmetry accounting for this cannot be group-like but non-invertible and depends on far finer topological data than homotopy groups. Besides, its invertible part is determined by some generalized cohomology like bordism, still instead of homotopy groups. This discovery also suggests a distinguished role of solitonic symmetry in understanding Abelian non-invertible symmetry, which may open up new avenues of inquiry and deepen our understanding of generalized symmetry.