• DOI:10.4310/ATMP.2007.v11.n5.a2
• Corpus ID: 11134639

Cluster decomposition, T-duality, and gerby CFTs

@article{Hellerman2006ClusterDT,
  title={Cluster decomposition, T-duality, and gerby CFTs},
  author={Simeon Hellerman and Andr{\'e} Henriques and Tony Pantev and Eric Sharpe and Matthew Ando},
  journal={Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics},
  year={2006},
  volume={11},
  pages={751-818}
}

• S. Hellerman, A. Henriques, +2 authors M. Ando
• Published 5 June 2006
• Mathematics
• Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

In this paper we study CFT’s associated to gerbes. These theories suffer from a lack of cluster decomposition, but this problem can be resolved: the CFT’s are the same as CFT’s for disconnected targets. Such theories also lack cluster decomposition, but in that form, the lack is manifestly not very problematic. In particular, we shall see that this matching of CFT’s, this duality between noneffective-gaugings and sigma models on disconnected targets, is a worldsheet duality related to T-duality. We perform a wide variety of tests of this claim, ranging from checking partition functions at arbitrary genus to D-branes to mirror symmetry. We also discuss a number of applications of these results, including predictions for quantum cohomology and Gromov-Witten theory and additional physical understanding of the geometric Langlands program.