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Boundary WZW, G/H, G/G and CS theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We extend the analysis of the canonical structure of the Wess-Zumino-Witten theory to the bulk and boundary coset G/H models. The phase spaces of the coset theories in the closed and in the open geometry appear to coincide with those of a double Chern-Simons theory on two different 3-manifolds. In particular, we obtain an explicit description of the canonical structure of the boundary G/G coset theory. The latter may be easily quantized leading to an example of a two-dimensional topological boundary field theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0108044,
  title  = {Boundary WZW, G/H, G/G and CS theories},
  author = {Krzysztof Gawedzki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0108044},
  year   = {2015}
}

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latex, 33 pages, 21 figures