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Quantum Liouville Theory from a Diffeomorphism Chern-Simons Action

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A Chern-Simons action written with Christoffel Symbols has a natural gauge symmetry of diffeomorphisms. This Chern-Simons action will induce a Wess-Zumio-Witten model on the boundary of the manifold. If we restrict the diffeomorphisms to chiral diffeomorphism, the Wess-Zumio-Witten model is equivalent to a quantum Liouville action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9510192,
  title  = {Quantum Liouville Theory from a Diffeomorphism Chern-Simons Action},
  author = {M. C. Ashworth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9510192},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Minor typo corrected

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