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

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.10.057MaRDI QIDQ874584zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Catherine Meusburger, B. J. Schroers

Publication date 10 April 2007

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

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)

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 $Gltimesmathfrak{g}^{\ast }$. 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.

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