Coset Models and Differential Geometry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-12-21 v1
Abstract
String propagation on a curved background defines an embedding problem of surfaces in differential geometry. Using this, we show that in a wide class of backgrounds the classical dynamics of the physical degrees of freedom of the string involves 2-dim sigma-models corresponding to coset conformal field theories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9609165,
title = {Coset Models and Differential Geometry},
author = {Konstadinos Sfetsos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9609165},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
7 pages, latex;Contribution to the proceedings of the Conference in Imperial College, London, 5-10 July 1996 and the e--proceedings of the Conference in Argonne, IL, 27 June - 12 July 1996