Quantization of Wilson loops in Wess-Zumino-Witten models

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/039zbMATH Open1326.81172arXivhep-th/0702174OpenAlexW3101823533MaRDI QIDQ896339FDOQ896339

Anton Alekseev, S. Monnier

Publication date: 9 December 2015

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a non-perturbative quantization of classical Wilson loops in the WZW model. The quantized Wilson loop is an operator acting on the Hilbert space of closed strings and commuting either with the full Kac-Moody chiral algebra or with one of its subalgebras. We prove that under open/closed string duality, it is dual to a boundary perturbation of the open string theory. As an application, we show that such operators are useful tools for identifying fixed points of the boundary renormalization group flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702174

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• \(SO(N)\) invariant Wess-Zumino action and its quantization

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