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We give a “holographic” explanation of Poisson-Lie T-duality in terms of Chern-Simons theory (or, more generally, in terms of Courant σ-models) with appropriate boundary conditions.
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Ševera, P. Poisson-Lie T-duality as a boundary phenomenon of Chern-Simons theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 44 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)044
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