Gravitational dressing of massive soliton theories

Jul, 1996
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 387 (1996) 707-714
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-96-201,
  • SNUTP-96-79

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Abstract:
The massive soliton theories describe integrable perturbations of WZW cosets as generalized multi-component sine-Gordon models. We study their coupling to 2-dim gravity in the conformal gauge and show that the resulting models can be interpreted as conformal non-Abelian Toda theories when a certain algebraic condition is satisfied. These models, however, do not provide quantum mechanically consistent string backgrounds in the case the underlying WZW constraints are first solved classically.
Note:
  • latex, 11pp Report-no: CERN-TH/96-201, SNUTP 96-79
  • sine-Gordon model
  • Wess-Zumino-Witten model
  • coset space
  • gravitation
  • dimension: 2
  • conformal gauge
  • field theory: soliton
  • field theory: Toda
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