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On moduli spaces of flat connections with non-simply connected structure group

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1 alg-geom Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We consider the moduli space of flat G-bundles over the twodimensional torus, where G is a real, compact, simple Lie group which is not simply connected. We show that the connected components that describe topologically non-trivial bundles are isomorphic as symplectic spaces to moduli spaces of topologically trivial bundles with a different structure group. Some physical applications of this isomorphism which allows to trade topological non-triviality for a change of the gauge group are sketched.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611092,
  title  = {On moduli spaces of flat connections with non-simply connected structure group},
  author = {Christoph Schweigert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611092},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, LaTeX