Abelian duality in WZW models

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00181-2zbMath1003.81538arXivhep-th/9601016OpenAlexW1973203945MaRDI QIDQ1915077

Matthias R. Gaberdiel

Publication date: 11 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601016

zbMATH Keywords

conformal invariancetopological termduality transformationstwisted Kac Moody algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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