Mapping class group actions in Chern-Simons theory with gauge group G g^*

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.10.057zbMATH Open1137.53349arXivhep-th/0312049OpenAlexW1853017673MaRDI QIDQ874584FDOQ874584

B. J. Schroers, Catherine Meusburger

Publication date: 10 April 2007

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

Abstract: We study the action of the mapping class group of an oriented genus g surface with n punctures and a disc removed on a Poisson algebra which arises in the combinatorial description of Chern-Simons gauge theory when the gauge group is a semidirect product $Gltimesmathfrak{g}^{*}$. We prove that the mapping class group acts on this algebra via Poisson isomorphisms and express the action of Dehn twists in terms of an infinitesimally generated G-action. We construct a mapping class group representation on the representation spaces of the associated quantum algebra and show that Dehn twists can be implemented via the ribbon element of the quantum double D(G) and the exchange of punctures via its universal R-matrix.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312049

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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