Path integral formulation of the conformal Wess-Zumino-Wirten → Liouville reduction

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 425, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 291-299

  O'Raifeartaigh, L ^a   Sreedhar, V V ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anomaly; WZW and Liouville models; Zero modes

Indexed keywords

EID: 9744267765     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00157-9     Document Type: Article

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