Gerbe-holonomy for surfaces with defect networks

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2009.V13.N4.A5zbMATH Open1200.81137arXiv0808.1419OpenAlexW1986651545MaRDI QIDQ989378FDOQ989378

Authors: Ingo Runkel, Rafał R. Suszek 

Publication date: 19 August 2010

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define the sigma-model action for world-sheets with embedded defect networks in the presence of a three-form field strength. We derive the defect gluing condition for the sigma-model fields and their derivatives, and use it to distinguish between conformal and topological defects. As an example, we treat the WZW model with defects labelled by elements of the centre Z(G) of the target Lie group G; comparing the holonomy for different defect networks gives rise to a 3-cocycle on Z(G). Next, we describe the factorisation properties of two-dimensional quantum field theories in the presence of defects and compare the correlators for different defect networks in the quantum WZW model. This, again, results in a 3-cocycle on Z(G). We observe that the cocycles obtained in the classical and in the quantum computation are cohomologous.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1419

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryholonomysigma modeltopological defectsWZW modeldefect lines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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