On the tensionless limit of gauged WZW models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1169-1233

  Bakas, Ioannis ^a   Sourdis, Christos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BRST Quantization; Conformal and W Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Sigma Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044481511     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/06/049     Document Type: Article

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