Conformally invariant path integral formulation of the Wess-Zumino-Witten Liouville reduction

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00049-2MaRDI QIDQ1571709zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. V. Sreedhar, L. O'Raifeartaigh

Publication date 11 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709143

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: The path integral description of the Wess-Zumino-Witten $o$ Liouville reduction is formulated in a manner that exhibits the conformal invariance explicitly at each stage of the reduction process. The description requires a conformally invariant generalization of the phase space path integral methods of Batalin, Fradkin, and Vilkovisky for systems with first class constraints. The conformal anomaly is incorporated in a natural way and a generalization of the Fradkin-Vilkovisky theorem regarding gauge independence is proved. This generalised formalism should apply to all conformally invariant reductions in all dimensions. A previous problem concerning the gauge dependence of the centre of the Virasoro algebra of the reduced theory is solved.

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