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

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00152-1zbMATH Open0942.58019arXivhep-th/9611092OpenAlexW3103559787MaRDI QIDQ678322FDOQ678322

Christoph Schweigert

Publication date: 16 April 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9611092

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoriesChern-Simons theoriesisomorphismsimple Lie grouptopologically nontrivial bundlesWZW models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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