MONOPOLES, MODULAR INVARIANCE AND CHERN-SIMONS FIELD-THEORY

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作者
CRESCIMANNO, M
HOTES, SA
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,DEPT PHYS,BERKELEY,CA 94720
[2] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(92)90371-H
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We develop an operator construction of Chern-Simons effective quantum mechanics. A correspondence between the resulting Hilbert space and the conformal blocks of the WZW model is made. Under this identification the fusion algebra is derived. Some properties of the modular transformations in higher genus of rational conformal field theories are understood by including monopole backgrounds to the theory at genus one.
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页码:683 / 700
页数:18
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