Understanding conformal field theory through parafermions and Chern Simons theory
Description:
Conformal field theories comprise a vast class of exactly solvable two dimensional quantum field theories. Conformal theories with an enlarged symmetry group, the current algebra symmetry, axe a key ingredient to possible string compactification models. The following work explores a Lagrangian approach to these theories. In the first part of this thesis, a large class of conformal theories, the so-called coset models, are derived semi-classically from a gauged version Of the Wess-Zumino-Witten …
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Date:
November 19, 1992
Creator:
Hotes, S. A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department