Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-03-09
in: From superstrings to supergravity, Proc. of26th Eloisatron Workshop From superstrings to supergravity, Erice 5-12 Dec.1992
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
20 pages, harvmac, CERN-TH.6820/93
Scientific paper
We discuss two classes of exact (in $\a'$) string solutions described by conformal sigma models. They can be viewed as two possibilities of constructing a conformal model out of the non-conformal one based on the metric of a $D$-dimensional homogeneous $G/H$ space. The first possibility is to introduce two extra dimensions (one space-like and one time-like) and to impose the null Killing symmetry condition on the resulting $2+D$ dimensional metric. In the case when the ``transverse" model is $n=2$ supersymmetric and the $G/H$ space is K\"ahler-Einstein the resulting metric-dilaton background can be found explicitly. The second possibility - which is realised in the sigma models corresponding to $G/H$ conformal theories - is to deform the metric, introducing at the same time a non-trivial dilaton and antisymmetric tensor backgrounds. The expressions for the metric and dilaton in this case are derived using the operator approach in which one identifies the equations for marginal operators of conformal theory with the linearised (near a background) expressions for the `$\b$-functions'. Equivalent results are then reproduced in the direct field-theoretical approach based on computing first the effective action of the $G/H$ gauged WZW model and then solving for the $2d$ gauge field. Both the bosonic and the supersymmetric cases are discussed. ( To be published in the Proceedings of the 26 Workshop ``From Superstrings to Supergravity", Erice, 5-12 December,1992.)
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