On the equivalence of the SO(2,1) gauged WZW form and Liouville theory

2009/04/14 by Andrès Anabalòn, Anabalon, Andres
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.2102

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Abstract

It is proved that Liouville theory and the two dimensional SO(2,1) gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten term are on-shell equivalent. This shed light on a possible higher dimensional generalization of the former theory.

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