Published January 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Dualities in quantum Hall system and noncommutative Chern-Simons theory

  • 1. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation) and LPTHE, Universite Paris VI, Paris (France)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique Universite de Paris XI, Orsay (FR)
  • 3. IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette (FR)
  • 4. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (RU) and Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford (GB)
  • 5. Centre Physique Theorique au CNRS, Case 907, Marseille (FR)

Description

We discuss different dualities of QHE in the framework of the noncommutative Chern-Simons theory. First, we consider the Morita or T-duality transformation on the torus which maps the abelian noncommutative CS description of QHE on the torus into the nonabelian commutative description on the dual torus. It is argued that the Ruijsenaars integrable many-body system provides the description of the QHE with finite amount of electrons on the torus. The new IIB brane picture for the QHE is suggested and applied to Jain and generalized hierarchies. This picture naturally links 2d σ-model and 3d CS description of the QHE. All duality transformations are identified in the brane setup and can be related with the mirror symmetry and S duality. We suggest a brane interpretation of the plateu transition in IQHE in which a critical point is naturally described by SL(2,R) WZW model. (author)

Availability note (English)

Available online at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/; E-print number: hep-th/0111013

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
01
Journal Issue
2002
Journal Page Range
p. vp
ISSN
1126-6708

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant HPRN-CT-2000-00152
Notes
46 refs, 4 figs