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

DOI10.1142/S0217751X9800216XMaRDI QIDQ4261968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

Recommendations

• Gauged \((2,2)\) sigma models and generalized Kähler geometry
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 592781
• Conformally and gauge invariant spin-2 field equations
• Sigma Models as Perturbed Conformal Field Theories
• New \(G_2\)-conifolds in \(M\)-theory and their field theory interpretation
• Light-cone gauge quantization of 2D sigma models.
• Conformal sigma models corresponding to gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories.
• New \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) superconformal field theories from \(\mathcal{S}\)-folds
• Spin-2 quantum gauge theories and perturbative gauge invariance
• Conformal higher-spin symmetry for matter fields in 2+1 dimensions

Cites work

• Current algebras and Wess-Zumino model in two dimensions
• Direct approach to operator conformal constructions: From fermions to primary fields
• Irrational conformal field theory
• Lie algebras associated with generalized Cartan matrices
• Linearized form of the generic affine-Virasoro action
• Non-Abelian bosonization in two dimensions
• QUASI-EXACTLY-SOLVABLE QUANTAL PROBLEMS: ONE-DIMENSIONAL ANALOGUE OF RATIONAL CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES
• String models with \(c<1\) components
• Virasoro algebras and coset space models

Cited in

(9)

• GENERAL VIRASORO CONSTRUCTION ON ORBIFOLD AFFINE ALGEBRA
• Linearized form of the generic affine-Virasoro action
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5212643 (Why is no real title available?)
• Conformal sigma models corresponding to gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories.
• New \(G_2\)-conifolds in \(M\)-theory and their field theory interpretation
• More about all current-algebraic orbifolds.
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1222195 (Why is no real title available?)
• Conformal field theories: From old to new
• THE GENERAL TWISTED OPEN WZW STRING

This page was built for publication: NEW SPIN-2 GAUGED SIGMA MODELS AND GENERAL CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4261968)