Conformal internal symmetry of 2d -models coupled to gravity and a dilaton

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00551-2MaRDI QIDQ1816786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. Julia, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date 28 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9608082

zbMATH Keywords

affine Kac-Moody algebraclassical solutionsLax pairreal Witt algebraVirasoro algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: General Relativity reduced to two dimensions possesses a large group of symmetries that exchange classical solutions. The associated Lie algebra is known to contain the affine Kac-Moody algebra $A_1^{(1)}$ and half of a real Witt algebra. In this paper we exhibit the full symmetry under the semi-direct product of $Lie{A}_1^{(1)}$ by the Witt algebra $LieWir$. Furthermore we exhibit the corresponding hidden gauge symmetries. We show that the theory can be understood in terms of an infinite dimensional potential space involving all degrees of freedom: the dilaton as well as matter and gravitation. In the dilaton sector the linear system that extends the previously known Lax pair has the form of a twisted self-duality constraint that is the analog of the self-duality constraint arising in extended supergravities in higher spacetime dimensions. Our results furnish a group theoretical explanation for the simultaneous occurrence of two spectral parameters, a constant one ($=y$) and a variable one ($=t$). They hold for all $2d$ non-linear $sigma$-models that are obtained by dimensional reduction of $G/H$ models in three dimensions coupled to pure gravity. In that case the Lie algebra is $LieWirsemi{G}^{(1)}$; this symmetry acts on a set of off shell fields (in a fixed gauge) and preserves the equations of motion.

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