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arxiv: hep-th/0108044 · v1 · pith:OVJSGRPEnew · submitted 2001-08-07 · ✦ hep-th

Boundary WZW, G/H, G/G and CS theories

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keywords boundarytheorycosetcanonicalstructuretheoriesanalysisappear
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We extend the analysis of the canonical structure of the Wess-Zumino-Witten theory to the bulk and boundary coset G/H models. The phase spaces of the coset theories in the closed and in the open geometry appear to coincide with those of a double Chern-Simons theory on two different 3-manifolds. In particular, we obtain an explicit description of the canonical structure of the boundary G/G coset theory. The latter may be easily quantized leading to an example of a two-dimensional topological boundary field theory.

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