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Gauge Symmetry in Background Charge Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-15 v2

Abstract

We present a mechanism to construct four-dimensional charged massless Ramond states using the discrete states of a fivebrane Liouville internal conformal field theory. This conformal field theory has background charge, and admits an inner product which allows positive norm states. A connection among supergravity soliton solutions, Liouville conformal field theory, non-critical string theory and their gauge symmetry properties is given. A generalized construction of the SU(2) super Kac-Moody algebra mixing with the N=1 super Virasoro algebra is analyzed. How these Ramond states evade the DKV no-go theorem is explained.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610091,
  title  = {Gauge Symmetry in Background Charge Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {L. Dolan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610091},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, plain Tex, no figures, published version