Topological Field Theories and Duality

Abstract

Topologically non trivial effects appearing in the discussion of duality transformations in higher genus manifolds are discussed in a simple example, and their relation with the properties of Topological Field Theories is established.

7 pages, Latex

References in corpus (2)

• Non Abelian BF theories with sources and 2-D gravity
• Non-Abelian ``Self-Dual'' Massive Gauge Theory in 2+1 Dimensions

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