Classical symmetries of some two-dimensional models coupled to gravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00455-2zbMath0925.81294arXivhep-th/9506076MaRDI QIDQ1899629

John H. Schwarz

Publication date: 17 October 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506076

zbMATH Keywords

chiral models; affine Lie algebra; string models; Virasoro symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

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