Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-07-15
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
216 pages, LATEX, 4 figures, use various AMS options, Ph. D. dissertation in french
Scientific paper
We invistigate exact solutions for the two-dimensional quantum field theories called Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) models. A WZNW model is a sigma model whose classical fields are applications from a bidimensional space-time (a Riemann surface in the euclidian case) to a Lie group, the target space. We construct (and we compute in genus zero and one) the metric connection, called the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard (KZB) connection, on the bundle of conformal blocks of the WZNW model. The KZB connection may be viewed as a quantization of Hitchin integrable systems whose configuration space is the moduli space of principal holomorphic bundles over a Riemann surface and whose phase space is the (holomorphic) cotangent bundle to the configuration space. For these systems, we construct explicitly a complete familly of Hamiltonians in involution in genus zero, one and two, with (complex) group SL(2) for the last case. The main result is the self-duality property of the Hitchin system at genus two, that is the invariance of the Hamiltonians with respect to the interchange of positions and momenta in the phase space. We finally realize the (geometric) quantization of the Hitchin systems.
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