The generic world-sheet action of irrational conformal field theory

Conference · Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:97238

Clubok, K ^[1]; Halpern, M B ^[2]

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1. California Univ., Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
2. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)

We review developments in the world-sheet action formulation of the generic irrational conformal field theory, including the non-linear and the linearized forms of the action. These systems form a large class of spin-two gauged WZW actions which exhibit exotic gravitational couplings. Integrating out the gravitational field, we also speculate on a connection with sigma models.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 97238
• Report Number(s): LBL-37255; CONF-9503178-1; ON: DE95014775; CNN: Grant PHY90-21139; TRN: 95:019241
• Resource Relation: Conference: Strings `95: future perspectives in string theory, Los Angeles, CA (United States), 13-18 Mar 1995; Other Information: PBD: May 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
FIELD THEORIES
CONFORMAL GROUPS
HAMILTONIANS
SIGMA MODEL
INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS
GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS