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On moment maps associated to a twisted Heisenberg double

Mathematical Physics 2010-11-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

We review the concept of the (anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetry in a way that emphasises the notion of Poisson-Lie Hamiltonian. The language that we develop turns out to be very useful for several applications: we prove that the left and the right actions of a group GG on its twisted Heisenberg double (D,κ)(D,\kappa) realize the (anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetries and we explain in a very transparent way the concept of the Poisson-Lie subsymmetry and that of Poisson-Lie symplectic reduction. Under some additional conditions, we construct also a non-anomalous moment map corresponding to a sort of quasi-adjoint action of GG on (D,κ)(D,\kappa). The absence of the anomaly of this "quasi-adjoint" moment map permits to perform the gauging of deformed WZW models.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0602048,
  title  = {On moment maps associated to a twisted Heisenberg double},
  author = {Ctirad Klimcik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0602048},
  year   = {2010}
}

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52 pages, LaTeX, introduction substantially enlarged, several explanatory remarks added, final published version