Gravitational Solitons and Completeness

Abstract

We show that gravitational solitons naturally carry gauge charges beyond those of any local quantum field. The effect of these charged excitations is to break a non-invertible symmetry to its maximal group-like sub-symmetry. Taking these charges into account, we show that the Completeness Hypothesis follows from the breaking of the remaining group-like symmetry. We generalize this picture to an arbitrary semisimple tensor category of particle charges, showing that the charges of gravitational solitons form the adjoint subcategory. We discuss a further generalization involving the charges of extended objects.