WZW-Toda Reduction using the Casimir Operator
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-22 v2
Abstract
We construct a quantum Hamiltonian operator for the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model in terms of the Casimir operator. This facilitates the discussion of the reduction of the WZW model to Toda field theory at the quantum level and provides a very straightforward derivation of the quantum central charge for the Toda field theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9302077,
title = {WZW-Toda Reduction using the Casimir Operator},
author = {I. Jack and J. Panvel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9302077},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16pp, uses harvmac, LTH 304 (Revised version with improved discussion of non-perturbative effects)