NEW SPIN-2 GAUGED SIGMA MODELS AND GENERAL CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X9800216XzbMATH Open0936.81040arXivhep-th/9802022OpenAlexW2000139109MaRDI QIDQ4261968FDOQ4261968

Authors: Jan de Boer, M. B. Halpern 

Publication date: 27 September 1999

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, we have studied the general Virasoro construction at one loop in the background of the general non-linear sigma model. Here, we find the action formulation of these new conformal field theories when the background sigma model is itself conformal. In this case, the new conformal field theories are described by a large class of new spin-two gauged sigma models. As examples of the new actions, we discuss the spin-two gauged WZW actions, which describe the conformal field theories of the generic affine-Virasoro construction, and the spin-two gauged g/h coset constructions. We are able to identify the latter as the actions of the local Lie h-invariant conformal field theories, a large class of generically irrational conformal field theories with a local gauge symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802022

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoriesaffine-Virasoro constructionbackground sigma modelspin-2 gauged sigma models

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) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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