Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-05-04
Nucl.Phys. B408 (1993) 345-390
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
47 pages (in A4 format), LaTex file, (original was truncated by the mailer - apologies, m.b.), IC/93/83
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(93)90538-Z
We give a derivation of the Verlinde formula for the $G_{k}$ WZW model from Chern-Simons theory, without taking recourse to CFT, by calculating explicitly the partition function $Z_{\Sigma\times S^{1}}$ of $\Sigma\times S^{1}$ with an arbitrary number of labelled punctures. By a suitable gauge choice, $Z_{\Sigma\times S^{1}}$ is reduced to the partition function of an Abelian topological field theory on $\Sigma$ (a deformation of non-Abelian BF and Yang-Mills theory) whose evaluation is straightforward. This relates the Verlinde formula to the Ray-Singer torsion of $\Sigma\times S^{1}$. We derive the $G_{k}/G_{k}$ model from Chern-Simons theory, proving their equivalence, and give an alternative derivation of the Verlinde formula by calculating the $G_{k}/G_{k}$ path integral via a functional version of the Weyl integral formula. From this point of view the Verlinde formula arises from the corresponding Jacobian, the Weyl determinant. Also, a novel derivation of the shift $k\ra k+h$ is given, based on the index of the twisted Dolbeault complex.
Blau Matthias
Thompson George
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