Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)


SIGMA 2 (2006), 079, 4 pages      math-ph/0609081      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2006.079
Contribution to the Proceedings of the O'Raifeartaigh Symposium

u-Deformed WZW Model and Its Gauging

Ctirad Klimčík
Institute de mathématiques de Luminy, 163, Avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille, France

Received September 28, 2006; Published online November 13, 2006

Abstract
We review the description of a particular deformation of the WZW model. The resulting theory exhibits a Poisson-Lie symmetry with a non-Abelian cosymmetry group and can be vectorially gauged.

Key words: gauged WZW model; Poisson-Lie symmetry.

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