Consistent string backgrounds and completely integrable 2D field theories
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Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)
Abstract: After reviewing the -function equations for consistent string backgrounds in the -model approach, including metric and antisymmetric tensor, dilaton and tachyon potential, we apply this formalism to WZW models. We particularly emphasize the case where the WZW model is perturbed by an integrable marginal tachyon potential operator leading to the non-abelian Toda theories. Already in the simplest such theory, there is a large non-linear and non-local chiral algebra that extends the Virasoro algebra. This theory is shown to have two formulations, one being a classical reduction of the other. Only the non-reduced theory is shown to satisfy the -function equations.
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