TOROIDAL ORBIFOLD MODELS WITH A WESS-ZUMINO TERM

被引:2
作者
MADSEN, JO
SAKAMOTO, M
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[1] KOBE UNIV,DEPT PHYS,KOBE 657,JAPAN
[2] LAPP,F-74941 ANNECY LE VIEUX,FRANCE
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10.1016/0370-2693(94)90495-2
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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Closed bosonic string theory on toroidal orbifolds is studied in a Lagrangian path integral formulation. It is shown that a level one twisted WZW action whose field value is restricted to Cartan subgroups of simply-laced Lie groups on a Riemann surface is a natural and nontrivial extension of a first quantized action of string theory on orbifolds with an antisymmetric background field.
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