Nonreductive WZW models and their CFTs

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00556-0zbMath1003.81547arXivhep-th/9506151OpenAlexW2075131487MaRDI QIDQ1904565

Sonia Stanciu, José M. Figueroa-O'Farrill

Publication date: 2 January 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506151

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian descriptiontopological conformal field theorydiagonal subgroup gaugingnonreductive Lie groupnonreductive Sugawara construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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