Description
In this talk we will explore how symmetry-breaking defects, predicted by the Cobordism Conjecture, can appear in brane networks. We will focus on theories with discrete symmetry groups, which naturally come with codimension-two branes defined by the gauge monodromy around them. Their second bordism group generically encodes generators described by discrete gauge bundles on genus g Riemann surfaces. The associated defects are given by brane networks involving their linking and junctions.
