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Sigma models with purely Wess-Zumino-Witten actions

  • 1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste (Italy)

Description

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 nontrivial 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.(author). 9 refs

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23 p.
Report number
IC--88/363

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Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
20038289
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HAMILTONIAN FUNCTION; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; SIGMA MODEL; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Descriptors DEC
BOSON-EXCHANGE MODELS; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PERIPHERAL MODELS