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BF Theories and Group-Level Duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

It is known that the partition function and correlators of the two-dimensional topological field theory GK(N)/GK(N)G_K(N)/ G_K(N) on the Riemann surface Σg,s\Sigma_{g,s} is given by Verlinde numbers, dim(Vg,s,KV_{g,s,K}) and that the large KK limit of dim(Vg,s,KV_{g,s,K}) gives Vol(Ms{\cal M}_s), the volume of the moduli space of flat connections of gauge group G(N)G(N) on Σg,s\Sigma_{g,s}, up to a power of KK. Given this relationship, we complete the computation of Vol(Ms{\cal M}_s) using only algebraic results from conformal field theory. The group-level duality of G(N)KG(N)_K is used to show that if G(N)G(N) is a classical group, then limNGK(N)/GK(N)\displaystyle \lim_{N\rightarrow \infty} G_K(N) / G_K(N) is a BF theory with gauge group G(K)G(K). Therefore this limit computes Vol(Ms{\cal M}^\prime_s), the volume of the moduli space of flat connections of gauge group G(K)G(K).

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9510064,
  title  = {BF Theories and Group-Level Duality},
  author = {J. M. Isidro and J. P. Nunes and H. J. Schnitzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9510064},
  year   = {2009}
}