Genus-one complex quantum Chern-Simons theory

DOI10.4310/JSG.2022.V20.N6.A1MaRDI QIDQ6042872zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. E. Andersen, Alessandro Malusà, Gabriele Rembado

Publication date 4 May 2023

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15630

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theoryquantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: We consider the geometric quantisation of Chern--Simons theory for closed genus-one surfaces and semisimple complex groups. First we introduce the natural complexified analogue of the Hitchin connection in K"{a}hler quantisation, with polarisations coming from the nonabelian Hodge hyper-K"{a}hler geometry of the moduli spaces of flat connections, thereby complementing the real-polarised approach of Witten. Then we consider the connection of Witten, and we identify it with the complexified Hitchin connection using a version of the Bargmann transform on polarised sections over the moduli spaces.

Review text

The aim of the paper is to unify two approaches to the geometric quantization of complex Chern-Simons theory for genus one closed surfaces, by considering the natural complexified analogue of the Hitchin connection (previously used for the structure group \(\mathrm{SU}(n)\) and relating it to the Hitchin-Witten connection (used for \(\mathrm{SL}(n, \mathbb{C})\) via the Bargmann transformation. The main four results are as follows: Theorem 1. The complexified Hitchin connection preserves holomorphicity. Moreover, it is flat and mapping class group invariant. Theorem 2. The Bargmann transform interwines the lifted Hitchin-Witten and complexified Hitchin connections when acting on (sufficiently regular) families of polarised sections, in a mapping class group equivariant fashion. Theorem 3. For every value of the Teichmüller parameter, the Bargmann transform defines a unitary isomorphism between the corresponding Hilbert spaces arising from geometric quantisation on the moduli space. Theorem 4. The Bargmann transform on the moduli spaces interwines the Hitchin-Witten and complexified Hitchin connections.

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• Hamiltonian quantization of complex Chern-Simons theory at level-k
• The genus one complex quantum Chern-Simons representation of the mapping class group
• A geometric quantisation view on the AJ-conjecture for the Teichmüller TQFT
• The automorphism equivariant Hitchin index
• Geometric quantization of Chern-Simons gauge theory

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