T-duality for boundary-non-critical point-particle and string quantum mechanics

TL;DR

This paper explores the structures of boundary conformal quantum mechanics, revealing T-duality and duality properties of anyons and Calogero-Sutherland particles, and relates these to string T-duality and M(atrix) quantum mechanics.

Contribution

It uncovers the connection between boundary conformal quantum mechanics, T-duality, and exotic statistics, extending understanding of dualities in quantum systems with boundaries.

Findings

Identification of T-duality in boundary quantum mechanics.

Analysis of duality properties of anyons and Calogero-Sutherland particles.

Comparison with T-duality in open string theories.

Abstract

It is observed that some structures recently uncovered in the study of Calogero-Sutherland models and anyons are close analogs of well-known structures of boundary conformal field theory. These examples of ``boundary conformal quantum mechanics'', in spite of their apparent simplicity, have a rather reach structure, including some sort of T-duality, and could provide useful frameworks for testing general properties of boundary conformal theories. Of particular interest are the duality properties of anyons and Calogero-Sutherland particles in presence of boundary-violations of conformal invariance; these are here briefly analyzed leading to the conjecture of a general interconnection between (deformed) boundary conformal quantum mechanics, T-type duality, and (``exchange'' or ``exclusion'') exotic statistics. These results on the point-particle quantum-mechanics side are compared with recent results on the action of T-duality on open strings that satisfy conformal-invariance-violating boundary conditions. Moreover, it is observed that some of the special properties of anyon and Calogero-Sutherland quantum mechanics are also enjoyed by the M(atrix) quantum mechanics which has recently attracted considerable attention.