The diagonal cosets of the Heisenberg group

Authors
Publication date 2008
Journal The Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume | Issue number 2008 | 5
Pages (from-to) 060
Number of pages 42
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract In this paper we study the diagonal cosets of the non-compact H4 WZW model. Generalising earlier work by Antoniadis and Obers, we provide an exact world-sheet description for several families of non-maximally symmetric gravitational plane waves with background NS fluxes. We show that the σ-models that correspond to an asymmetric action of the gauge group smoothly interpolate between singular and non-singular plane waves. We also analyse the representations of the coset chiral algebra and derive the spectrum of all the models.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/060
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