Covariant W gravity and its moduli space from gauge theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90308-CMaRDI QIDQ1966058zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jan de Boer, Jacob K. Goeree

Publication date 5 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9206098

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) 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: In this paper we study arbitrary $W$ algebras related to embeddings of $s{l}_2$ in a Lie algebra $g$. We give a simple formula for all $W$ transformations, which will enable us to construct the covariant action for general $W$ gravity. It turns out that this covariant action is nothing but a Fourier transform of the WZW action. The same general formula provides a geometrical interpretation of $W$ transformations: they are just homotopy contractions of ordinary gauge transformations. This is used to argue that the moduli space relevant to $W$ gravity is part of the moduli space of $G$-bundles over a Riemann surface.

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