The phase space of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model

1992/09/24 by G. Papadopoulos, Papadopoulos, G., Bill Spence +2
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9209095

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Abstract

We prove that the covariant and Hamiltonian phase spaces of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model on the cylinder are diffeomorphic and we derive the Poisson brackets of the theory.

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