Quantum double actions on operator algebras and orbifold quantum field theories

DOI10.1007/S002200050264zbMATH Open0897.46059arXivhep-th/9606175OpenAlexW2100431653MaRDI QIDQ1377047FDOQ1377047

Authors: Michael Müger 

Publication date: 1 February 1998

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Starting from a local quantum field theory with an unbroken compact symmetry group $G$ in 1+1-dimensional spacetime we construct disorder fields implementing gauge transformations on the fields (order variables) localized in a wedge region. Enlarging the local algebras by these disorder fields we obtain a nonlocal field theory, the fixpoint algebras of which under the appropriately extended action of the group $G$ are shown to satisfy Haag duality in every simple sector. The specifically 1+1 dimensional phenomenon of violation of Haag duality of fixpoint nets is thereby clarified. In the case of a finite group $G$ the extended theory is acted upon in a completely canonical way by the quantum double $D(G)$ and satisfies R-matrix commutation relations as well as a Verlinde algebra. Furthermore, our methods are suitable for a concise and transparent approach to bosonization. The main technical ingredient is a strengthened version of the split property which should hold in all reasonable massive theories. In the appendices (part of) the results are extended to arbitrary locally compact groups and our methods are adapted to chiral theories on the circle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606175

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zbMATH Keywords

bosonizationquantum field theoryVerlinde algebraquantum doublegauge transformationslocal algebrasHaag dualitynonlocal field theorychiral theories\(R\)-matrix commutation relationsdisorder fieldsfixpoint algebrasorbifold quantum field theoriesunbroken compact symmetry group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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