Published July 22, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Canonical quantization of the induced 2D gravity

  • 1. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (Netherlands). Inst. voor Theoretische Fysica
  • 2. Montreal Univ., Quebec (Canada). Lab. de Physique Nucleaire

Description

We present a bosonized version of an arbitrary conformal field theory on a fluctuating space-time. We develop the canonical formalism in the light-cone gauge. The SL(2, R) current algebra structure is identified and the constraints are imposed by the BRST procedure. We quantize the system for space both a circle and a line. We recover for this model the renormalization of the central term of the current algebra and of the scaling dimensions. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Nuclear Physics B, Field Theory and Statistical Systems
Journal Volume
358
Journal Issue
3
Series
Nucl. Phys. B, Field Theory Stat. Syst.
Journal Page Range
713-736
ISSN
0169-6823
CODEN
NBSSD