BRST QUANTIZATION OF THE GAUGED WZW ACTION AND COSET CONFORMAL FIELD-THEORIES

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KARABALI, D [1 ]
SCHNITZER, HJ [1 ]
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[1] BRANDEIS UNIV,DEPT PHYS,WALTHAM,MA 02254
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10.1016/0550-3213(90)90075-O
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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The relation of the gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten models describing G/H conformal field theories and the GKO construction is investigated in the BRST framework. A nilpotent operator Q is constructed and the physical spectrum and unitarity of the theory is analyzed. When H is the Cartan subalgebra of G the BRST invariant current operators (the physical currents) are shown to be the parafermionic operators. © 1990.
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