Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-11-14
JHEP 0308 (2003) 039
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
9 pages. Typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/039
Two dimensional light cone world sheet massive models can be used to define good string backgrounds.In many cases these light cone world sheet lagrangians flow from a CFT in the UV to a theory of massive particles in the IR. The relevant symmetry in the IR, playing a similar role to Virasoro in the UV, are quantum affine Kac Moody algebras. Finite dimensional irreps of this algebra are associated with the spectrum of massive particles. The case of N=0 Sine Gordon at the N=2 point is associated with a Landau Ginzburg model that defines a good string background. For the world sheet symmetry $(N=2) \otimes U_{q}(\hat{Sl(2)})$ the N=2 piece is associated with the string conformal invariance and the $U_{q}(\hat{Sl(2)})$ piece with the world sheet RG. The two dimensional light cone world sheet massive model can be promoted to a CFT by adding extra light cone fields $X^{-}$ and $X^{+}$. From the point of view of the quantum affine symmetry these two fields are associated, respectively, with the center and the derivation of the affine Kac Moody algebra.
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