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arxiv hep-th/9402091 v1 pith:X47W6P7O submitted 1994-02-16 hep-th

SU(2) WZW Theory at Higher Genera

classification hep-th
keywords statescomplexfieldfinite-dimensionalgenushigherproductscalar
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We compute, by free field techniques, the scalar product of the SU(2) Chern-Simons states on genus > 1 surfaces. The result is a finite-dimensional integral over positions of ``screening charges'' and one complex modular parameter. It uses an effective description of the CS states closely related to the one worked out by Bertram. The scalar product formula allows to express the higher genus partition functions of the WZW conformal field theory by finite-dimensional integrals. It should provide the hermitian metric preserved by the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard connection describing the variations of the CS states under the change of the complex structure of the surface.

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