Wednesday, March 13, 2013

1303.2660 (Geoffrey Compère et al.)

Chiral Liouville Gravity    [PDF]

Geoffrey Compère, Wei Song, Andrew Strominger
Classical two-dimensional Liouville gravity is often considered in conformal gauge which has a residual left and right Virasoro symmetry algebra. We consider an alternate, chiral, gauge which has a residual right Virasoro Kac-Moody algebra, and no left Virasoro algebra. The Kac-Moody zero mode is the left-moving energy. Dirac brackets of the constrained Hamiltonian theory are derived, and the residual symmetries are shown to be generated by integrals of the conserved chiral currents. The central charge and Kac-Moody level are computed. The possible existence of a corresponding quantum theory is discussed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2660

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