Canonical approach to the WZNW model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-10-29 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The chiral Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) model provides the simplest class of rational conformal field theories which exhibit a non-abelian braid-group statistics and an associated "quantum symmetry". The canonical derivation of the Poisson-Lie symmetry of the classical chiral WZNW theory (originally studied by Faddeev, Alekseev, Shatashvili and Gawedzki, among others) is reviewed along with subsequent work on a covariant quantization of the theory which displays its quantum group symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1410.7228,
title = {Canonical approach to the WZNW model},
author = {Paolo Furlan and Ludmil Hadjiivanov and Ivan Todorov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.7228},
year = {2014}
}
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162 pages, 1 figure (v2: just reformatted for better readability)