The effective action of W₃ gravity to all orders

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90307-BMaRDI QIDQ1966059zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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/9211107

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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: The effective action for chiral $W_3$ gravity is studied. It is shown that the computation of the effective action can be reduced to that of a $SL(3,e)$ Wess-Zumino-Witten theory. If one assumes that the effective action for the Wess-Zumino-Witten model is identical to the WZW action up to multiplicative renormalizations, then the effective action for $W_3$ gravity is, to all orders, given by a constrained WZW model. The multiplicative renormalization constants of the WZW model are discussed and it is analyzed which particular values of these constants are consistent with previous one-loop calculations, and which reproduce the KPZ formulas for gravity and their generalizations for $W_3$ gravity.

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