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On moment maps associated to a twisted Heisenberg double

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Ctirad Klimcik

Mathematical Physics · Submitted 20 Feb 2006 · 18 references

Pith's reading: For twisted Heisenberg doubles, the left and right moment maps can be combined into non-anomalous quasi-adjoint moment maps, enabling the Poisson-Lie gauging of deformed WZW models, with a new u-deformed example worked out.

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For twisted Heisenberg doubles, the left and right moment maps can be combined into non-anomalous quasi-adjoint moment maps, enabling the Poisson-Lie gauging of deformed WZW models, with a new u-deformed example worked out.

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WZW models are two-dimensional field theories used to describe strings moving on curved group-manifolds. A standard operation, gauging, removes part of a model's symmetry to produce a new, often simpler model. Gauging is reliable only when the symmetry admits a non-anomalous moment map, roughly a machine that converts each symmetry direction into a conserved quantity. In deformed, so-called Poisson-Lie symmetric versions of WZW models, the usual definition of symmetry was too coarse to tell harmless from anomalous cases.

This paper proposes a sharper definition of Poisson-Lie symmetry based on the cosymmetry group B, the partner group that carries the moment map. In this language a symmetry is non-anomalous exactly when its moment map is a Poisson map. The two natural left and right moment maps of a twisted Heisenberg double are anomalous, but the paper proves that certain products of them, named B_L and B_R, are non-anomalous and generate quasi-adjoint actions that can be gauged. A second theorem tells when a subgroup of the symmetry group survives as a non-anomalous symmetry.

The concrete payoff is a new family of models, the u-deformed WZW models, built from loop-group data with a twist. The paper writes down their symplectic form, their Poisson brackets (a deformed Kac-Moody algebra), performs the symplectic reduction that implements the gauging, and shows that switching off the deformation recovers the standard gauged WZW model. A worked example with the group SL(3,R) illustrates the non-decomposable case. Quantization of the deformed models is left open.

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The load-bearing assertion is Theorem 2: for a decomposable twisted Heisenberg double with κ preserving B, the maps B_L(K) = κ(Λ_L(K))Λ_R(K) and B_R(K) = κ^{-1}(Λ_R(K))Λ_L(K) 'are Poisson and they realize the (non-anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetries of (D, {.,.}_D)', with the symmetry group G acting by the quasi-adjoint actions (20a) and (20b). The advertised payoff, from the Abstract, is that 'the absence of the anomaly of this quasi-adjoint moment map permits to perform the gauging of deformed WZW models', instantiated in Section 4 by the u-deformation and its symplectic reduction. If the paper is correct, gauged Poisson-Lie deformations of WZW models are well-defined classical dynamical systems.

Load-bearing premise

The global unambiguous decomposability of the double, D = κ(B)G and D = κ(G)B (Theorem 1 hypothesis, Section 2.3), together with κ(B) = B for Theorem 2. These hypotheses are what make Λ_L, Λ_R and the G-actions global. The paper itself notes that 'the list of decomposable doubles is not very long' (Section 2.3, Explanations), and for the generic non-decomposable case Section 3.3 only recovers a partial statement on the leaf M = O_L ∩ O_R, under the further assumption that a subgroup H = N^⊥ preserves M (Lemma 4). If decomposability fails, the central gauging construction of Sections 3.1 to 4 does not apply.

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We review the concept of the (anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetry in a way that emphasises the notion of Poisson-Lie Hamiltonian. The language that we develop turns out to be very useful for several applications: we prove that the left and the right actions of a group $G$ on its twisted Heisenberg double $(D,\kappa)$ realize the (anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetries and we explain in a very transparent way the concept of the Poisson-Lie subsymmetry and that of Poisson-Lie symplectic reduction. Under some additional conditions, we construct also a non-anomalous moment map corresponding to a sort of quasi-adjoint action of $G$ on $(D,\kappa)$. The absence of the anomaly of this "quasi-adjoint" moment map permits to perform the gauging of deformed WZW models.

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We review the concept of the (anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetry in a way that emphasises the notion of Poisson-Lie Hamiltonian. The language that we develop turns out to be very useful for several applications: we prove that the left and the right actions of a group $G$ on its twisted Heisenberg double $(D,\kappa)$ realize the (anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetries and we explain in a very transparent way the concept of the Poisson-Lie subsymmetry and that of Poisson-Lie symplectic reduction. Under some additional conditions, we construct also a non-anomalous moment map corresponding to a sort of quasi-adjoint action of $G$ on $(D,\kappa)$. The absence of the anomaly of this "quasi-adjoint" moment map permits to perform the gauging of deformed WZW models.

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s1 The language that we develop turns out to be very useful for several applications: we prove that the left and the right actions of a group $G$ on its twisted Heisenberg double $(D,\kappa)$ realize the (anomalous) Poisson-Lie symmetries and we explain in a very transparent way the concept of the Poisson-Lie subsymmetry and that of Poisson-Lie symplectic reduction. contribution 0.50 0.95 0.29 asserted 1.00
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