Coset Models and Differential Geometry
Indexed on: 19 Sep '96Published on: 19 Sep '96Published in: High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
String propagation on a curved background defines an embedding problem of surfaces in differential geometry. Using this, we show that in a wide class of backgrounds the classical dynamics of the physical degrees of freedom of the string involves 2-dim sigma-models corresponding to coset conformal field theories.
