WZW models of general simple groups

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00587-0zbMath1003.81550arXivhep-th/9508105OpenAlexW3100685991MaRDI QIDQ1906814

Matthias R. Gaberdiel

Publication date: 23 January 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508105

zbMATH Keywords

modular invariancequantum theoriesmonodromy invariancenoncontractible loopsSugawara expression transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

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