Dr Lakshya Bhardwaj
Status
Postdoctoral Research Associate
bhardwaj at maths.ox.ac.uk
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted publications
Non-invertible higher-categorical symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A SciPost Physics volume 14 issue 1 (26 Jan 2023) The Global Form of Flavor Symmetries and 2-Group Symmetries in 5d SCFTs
Apruzzi, F Bhardwaj, L Oh, J Schafer-Nameki, S SciPost Phys. volume 13 024-024 (18 May 2021) Higher-form symmetries of 6d and 5d theories
Bhardwaj, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2021 issue 2 (18 Feb 2021) Twisted circle compactifications of 6d SCFTs
Bhardwaj, L Jefferson, P Kim, H Tarazi, H Vafa, C JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 12 (23 Dec 2020) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000603046600003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e Classification of 5d N=1 gauge theories
Bhardwaj, L Zafrir, G JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 12 (16 Dec 2020) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000601400200002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e On the classification of 5d SCFTs
Bhardwaj, L JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 9 (01 Sep 2020) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000568872500005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e Classifying 5d SCFTs via 6d SCFTs: arbitrary rank
Bhardwaj, L Jefferson, P JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 10 (31 Oct 2019) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000495669500001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e Classifying 5d SCFTs via 6d SCFTs: rank one
Bhardwaj, L Jefferson, P JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 7 (31 Jul 2019) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000478609200001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e The frozen phase of F-theory
Bhardwaj, L Morrison, D Tachikawa, Y Tomasiello, A Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2018 issue 8 (22 Aug 2018) On finite symmetries and their gauging in two dimensions
Bhardwaj, L Tachikawa, Y Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2018 issue 3 (29 Mar 2018) State sum constructions of spin-TFTs and string net constructions of fermionic phases of matter
Bhardwaj, L Gaiotto, D Kapustin, A Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2017 issue 4 (18 Apr 2017) F-theory and the classification of little strings
Bhardwaj, L Del Zotto, M Heckman, J Morrison, D Rudelius, T Vafa, C Physical Review D volume 93 issue 8 (07 Apr 2016) Classification of 6d N = 1 0 $$ \mathcal{N}=\left(1,0\right) $$ gauge theories
Bhardwaj, L Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2015 issue 11 (04 Nov 2015) Classification of 4d
$ \mathcal{N} $
=2 gauge theories
Bhardwaj, L Tachikawa, Y Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2013 issue 12 (23 Dec 2013) $ \mathcal{N} $
=2 gauge theories
Major / recent publications
Recent publications
Relative defects in relative theories: trapped higher-form symmetries and irregular punctures in class S
Bhardwaj, L Giacomelli, S Hübner, M Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 13 issue 4 (26 Oct 2022) Universal non-invertible symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Schafer-Nameki, S Wu, J Fortschritte der Physik volume 70 issue 11 (05 Oct 2022) Global form of flavor symmetry groups in 4d N = 2 theories of class S
Bhardwaj, L SCIPOST PHYSICS volume 12 issue 6 (Jun 2022) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000810202300009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e 2-Group symmetries in class S
Bhardwaj, L SCIPOST PHYSICS volume 12 issue 5 (May 2022) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000810390800033&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e 2-Group symmetries and their classification in 6d
Apruzzi, F Bhardwaj, L Gould, D Schafer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 12 (18 Mar 2022) Liberating confinement from Lagrangians: 1-form symmetries and lines in 4d N=1 from 6d N=(2,0)
Hübner, M Bhardwaj, L Schafer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 12 (26 Jan 2022) 1-form symmetries of 4d N=2 class S theories
Bhardwaj, L Hübner, M Schafer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 11 issue 5 (24 Nov 2021) Flavor symmetry of 5d SCFTs. Part I. General setup
Bhardwaj, L JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 9 (28 Sep 2021) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000701662100005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e Flavor symmetry of 5d SCFTs. Part II. Applications
Bhardwaj, L JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 4 (22 Apr 2021) https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000644190300002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e Do all 5d SCFTs descend from 6d SCFTs?
Bhardwaj, L JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 4 (09 Apr 2021) https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000639403500002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e More 5d KK theories
Bhardwaj, L Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2021 issue 3 (04 Mar 2021) SL(2, Z) action on QFTs with Z(2) symmetry and the Brown-Kervaire invariants
Bhardwaj, L Lee, Y Tachikawa, Y JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 11 (25 Nov 2020) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000595818700012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e Dualities of 5d gauge theories from S-duality
Bhardwaj, L JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 7 (02 Jul 2020) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000548894900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e Revisiting the classifications of 6d SCFTs and LSTs
Bhardwaj, L Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2020 issue 3 (27 Mar 2020) Unoriented 3d TFTs
Bhardwaj, L Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2017 issue 5 (10 May 2017) Research interests
- Generalized Global Symmetries; Confinement; ‘t Hooft Anomalies
- 5d and 6d SCFTs; Little String Theories
- 4d N=2 Theories; Theories of Class S; Non-Lagrangian Theories
- F-theory and M-theory Compactifications
- TQFTs and Gapped Phases of Matter; SPT Phases