Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-10-26
Nucl.Phys. B488 (1997) 599-652
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
expanded version to appear in NPB: detailed analysis of torsion sectors arising from the adjoint gauging included; 67 pages, L
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00008-4
We investigate in detail the topological gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten models describing topological Kazama-Suzuki models based on complex Grassmannians. We show that there is a topological sector in which the ring of observables (constructed from the Grassmann odd scalars of the theory) coincides with the classical cohomology ring of the Grassmannian for all values of the level k. We perform a detailed analysis of the non-trivial topological sectors arising from the adjoint gauging, and investigate the general ring structure of bosonic correlation functions, uncovering a whole hierarchy of level-rank relations (including the standard level-rank duality) among models based on different Grassmannians. Using the previously established localization of the topological Kazama-Suzuki model to an Abelian topological field theory, we reduce the correlators to finite-dimensional purely algebraic expressions. As an application, these are evaluated explicitly for the CP{2} model at level k and shown for all k to coincide with the cohomological intersection numbers of the two-plane Grassmannian G(2,k+2), thus realizing the level-rank duality between this model and the G(2,k+2) model at level one.
Blau Matthias
Hussain Faheem
Thompson George
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