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Boundary WZW, G/H, G/G and CS theories
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.Comment: latex, 33 pages, 21 figure
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