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Light-Cone Parametrizations for K\"Ahler Manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

It is shown that, for any K\"ahler manifold, there exist parametrizations such that the metric takes a block-form identical to the light-cone metric introduced by Polyakov for two-dimensional gravity. Besides its possible relevence for various aspects of K\"ahlerian geometry, this fact allows us to change gauge in W gravities, and explicitly go from the conformal (Toda) gauge to the light-cone gauge using the W-geometry we proposed earlier (this will be discussed in detail in a forthcoming article).

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9304132,
  title  = {Light-Cone Parametrizations for K\"Ahler Manifolds},
  author = {Jean-Loup Gervais and Yutaka Matsuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9304132},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

(10 pages, no figure, simple LATEX file); preprint LPTENS-93/15, UT-639

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