Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-11-10
Nucl.Phys.B418:173-194,1994
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
29 pages, harvmac, CERN-TH.7068/93 [Section 5 is expanded; the action of two `chiral' sets of group coordinates which correspo
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(94)90243-7
We consider a class of sigma models that appears from a generalisation of the gauged WZW model parametrised by a constant matrix $Q$. Particular values of $Q$ correspond to the standard gauged WZW models, chiral gauged WZW models and a bosonised version of the non-abelian Thirring model. The condition of conformal invariance of the models (to one loop or $1/k$-order but exactly in $Q$) is derived and is represented as an algebraic equation on $Q$. Solving this equation we demonstrate explicitly the conformal invariance of the sigma models associated with arbitrary $G/H$ gauged and chiral gauged WZW theories as well as of the models that can be represented as WZW model perturbed by integrably marginal operators (constructed from currents of the Cartan subalgebra $H_c$ of $G$). The latter models can be also interpreted as $G x H/H$ gauged WZW models and have the corresponding target space couplings (metric, antisymmetric tensor and dilaton) depending on an arbitrary constant matrix which parametrises an embedding of the abelian subgroup $H$ (isomorphic to $H_c$) into $G x H$. We discuss the relation of our conformal invariance equation to the large $k$ form of the master equation of the affine-Virasoro construction. Our equation describes `reducible' versions of some `irreducible' solutions (cosets) of the master equation. We suggest a classically non-Lorentz-invariant sigma model that may correspond to other solutions of the master equation.
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