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All WZW Mooels in $D\leq5$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present here all the real algebras A\cal{A} with dimA\cal{A}\leq 5 and all 6-dimensional nilpotent ones with symmetric, invariant and non-degenerate metrics for which a WZW model can be constructed. In three and four dimensions there are no other algebras than the well known SU(2)SU(2), SU(1,1)SU(1,1), E2cE_2^c and H4H_4. There exist only one five-dimensional and one six-dimensional nilpotent algebra with invariant non-degenerate metric and central charge c=5,6c=5, \,6, respectively. We examine in details the five-dimensional case and, by gauging an appropriate subgroup, four-dimensional plane-wave string backgrounds are obtained. The corresponding background for the six-dimensional case is flat.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9406136,
  title  = {All WZW Mooels in $D\leq5$},
  author = {A. A. Kehagias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9406136},
  year   = {2007}
}

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