HANDLE OPERATORS OF COSET MODELS

Several interesting features of coset models ''without fixed points'' are easily understood via Chern-Simons theory. In this paper we derive explicit formulae for the handle-squashing operator in these cosets. These operators are fixed, linear combinations of the irreducible repr esentations of the coset. As a simple application of these curious for mulae, we compute the traces of all genus-one operators for several co mmon cosets.