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The Canonical Structure of Wess-Zumino-Witten Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-09 v2

Abstract

The phase space of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model on a circle with target space a compact, connected, semisimple Lie group GG is defined and the corresponding symplectic form is given. We present a careful derivation of the Poisson brackets of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model. We also study the canonical structure of the supersymmetric and the gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9202033,
  title  = {The Canonical Structure of Wess-Zumino-Witten Models},
  author = {G. Papadopoulos and B. Spence},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9202033},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16pp (revised version - two new sections added and relation with other recent work discussed)