Generalized Toda theories from WZNW reduction

DOI10.1142/S0217732397000091MaRDI QIDQ2728366zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niclas Wyllard

Publication date 1 August 2001

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603040

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) 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: We reconsider the, by Brink and Vasiliev, recently proposed generalized Toda field theories using the framework of WZNW$ightarrow$Toda reduction. The reduced theory has a gauge symmetry which can be fixed in various ways. We discuss some different gauge choices. In particular we study the $calW$ algebra associated with the generalized model in some different realizations, corresponding to different gauge choices. We also investigate the mapping between the Toda field and a free field and show the relation between the $calW$ algebra generators expressed in terms of the two different fields. All results apply also to the case of ordinary Toda theories.

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• Generalized \(N=2\) supersymmetric Toda field theories

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