Sigma models with purely Wess-Zumino-Witten actions Academic Article

abstract

• We study the dynamics of sigma models in arbitrary dimensions with purely Wess-Zumino-Witten actions (i.e. without kinetic terms), both from the lagrangian and hamiltonian point of view. These models have non-trivial gauge groups which contain the diffeomorphisms of space-time, as well as symmetry groups which in many cases turn out to be infinite dimensional. We give examples in 1, 2, 3 and 4 space-time dimensions. 1989.

authors

• Sezgin, Ergin

published proceedings

• Nuclear Physics B

author list (cited authors)

• Floreanini, R., Percacci, R., & Sezgin, E.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• Floreanini, Roberto||Percacci, Roberto||Sezgin, Ergin

publication date

• August 1989

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Nuclear Physics B  Journal

keywords

• 49 Mathematical Sciences
• 4902 Mathematical Physics
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5107 Particle And High Energy Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90493-8

start page

• 255

end page

• 276

volume

• 322

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(89)90493-8