Quantum mechanics and nonabelian theta functions for the gauge group SU(2)

DOI10.4064/FM228-2-1zbMATH Open1327.81240arXiv1007.2010OpenAlexW2963712315MaRDI QIDQ2939939FDOQ2939939

Authors: Răzvan Gelca, A. Uribe 

Publication date: 23 January 2015

Published in: Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper outlines an approach to the non-abelian theta functions of the $SU(2)$-Chern-Simons theory with the methods used by A. Weil for studying classical theta functions. First we translate in knot theoretic language classical theta functions, the action of the finite Heisenberg group, and the discrete Fourier transform. Then we explain how the non-abelian counterparts of these arise in the framework of the quantum group quantization of the moduli space of flat $SU(2)$-connections on a surface, in the guise of the non-abelian theta functions, the action of a skein algebra, and the Reshetikhin-Turaev representation of the mapping class group. We prove a Stone-von Neumann theorem on the moduli space of flat $SU(2)$-connections on the torus, and using it we deduce the existence and the formula for the Reshetikhin-Turaev representation on the torus from quantum mechanical considerations. We show how one can derive in a quantum mechanical setting the skein that allows handle slides, which is the main ingredient in the construction of quantum $3$-manifold invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2010

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zbMATH Keywords

Weyl quantizationnonabelian theta functionsSkein modulesReshetikhin-Turaev theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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