The abelian cosets of the Heisenberg group

Authors
Publication date 2007
Journal The Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume | Issue number 07 | 11
Pages (from-to) 045
Number of pages 28
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 Abstract. In this paper we study the abelian cosets of the H4 WZW model. They coincide or are related to several interesting three-dimensional backgrounds such as the Melvin model, the conical point-particle space-times and the null orbifold. We perform a detailed CFT analysis of all the models and compute the coset characters as well as some typical three-point couplings of coset primaries.

Key words: Conformal and W Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Spacetime Singularities
Document type Article
Published at http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1126-6708/2007/11/045/
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