Gauging Wess-Zumino-Witten Models

1995/11/07 by A. Sevrin, Alexander Sevrin, Sevrin, A.
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9511050

11 pages, LaTeX, Contribution to the proceedings of the "Workshop on gauge theories, applied supersymmetry and quantum gravity", Leuven, july 1995

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Abstract

We review some aspects of gauged WZW models. By choosing a nilpotent subgroup as gauge group, one is lead to three main applications: the construction of field theories with an extended conformal symmetry, the construction of the effective action of (extended) 2D gravities and the systematic construction of string theories with some extended gauge symmetry.

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