Current-current deformations of conformal field theories, and WZW models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1691-1721

  Förste, Stefan ^a   Roggenkamp, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744991360     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/071     Document Type: Article

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