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Can locality survive non-invertible symmetries on lattices?

Nicholas Holfester, Jonathan Sorce

May 20, 2026

Physicists study how locality principles (Haag duality and disjoint additivity) behave in 2+1D lattice systems with non-invertible symmetries governed by Hopf algebras. They find that Haag duality holds exactly only for regions without sharp corners; cusped regions require a boundary collar to restore the principle. The results apply to string-net models and lattice gauge theories, establishing when the algebra of local operators remains sensible.
Published as Algebraic locality and non-invertible Gauss laws arXiv:2605.21591
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