Drinfeld-Sokolov gravity

DOI10.1007/BF02101286zbMATH Open0872.17024OpenAlexW3099897736MaRDI QIDQ679386FDOQ679386

Authors Roberto Zucchini 

Publication date 15 October 1997

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508054

zbMATH Keywords

conformal invariancecompact Riemann surfacegauge fixing\(W\)-algebrasDrinfeld-Sokolov reductionDrinfeld-Sokolov bundleDrinfeld-Sokolov field theoryDrinfeld-Sokolov ghost systemlagrangian euclidean model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) 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)

Abstract: A lagrangian euclidean model of Drinfeld--Sokolov (DS) reduction leading to general $W$--algebras on a Riemann surface of any genus is presented. The background geometry is given by the DS principal bundle $K$ associated to a complex Lie group $G$ and an $SL(2,BbbC)$ subgroup $S$. The basic fields are a hermitian fiber metric $H$ of $K$ and a $(0,1)$ Koszul gauge field $A^{\ast }$ of $K$ valued in a certain negative graded subalgebra $gothx$ of $gothg$ related to $goths$. The action governing the $H$ and $A^{\ast }$ dynamics is the effective action of a DS field theory in the geometric background specified by $H$ and $A^{\ast }$. Quantization of $H$ and $A^{\ast }$ implements on one hand the DS reduction and on the other defines a novel model of $2d$ gravity, DS gravity. The gauge fixing of the DS gauge symmetry yields an integration on a moduli space of DS gauge equivalence classes of $A^{\ast }$ configurations, the DS moduli space. The model has a residual gauge symmetry associated to the DS gauge transformations leaving a given field $A^{\ast }$ invariant. This is the DS counterpart of conformal symmetry. Conformal invariance and certain non perturbative features of the model are discussed in detail.

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