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Gravitational dressing of massive soliton theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

The massive soliton theories describe integrable perturbations of WZW cosets as generalized multi-component sine-Gordon models. We study their coupling to 2-dim gravity in the conformal gauge and show that the resulting models can be interpreted as conformal non-Abelian Toda theories when a certain algebraic condition is satisfied. These models, however, do not provide quantum mechanically consistent string backgrounds in the case the underlying WZW constraints are first solved classically.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9607243,
  title  = {Gravitational dressing of massive soliton theories},
  author = {Ioannis Bakas and Q-Han Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9607243},
  year   = {2009}
}

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latex, 11pp