scholarly journals Consistent Two-Dimensional Chiral Gravity

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 3695-3722
Author(s):  
A. Smailagic ◽  
E. Spallucci

We study chiral induced gravity in the light-cone gauge and show that the theory is consistent for a particular choice of chiralities. The corresponding Kac–Moody central charge has no forbidden region of complex values. Generalized analysis of the critical exponents is given and their relation to the SL (2,R) vacuum states is elucidated. All the parameters containing information about the theory can be traced back to the characteristics of the residual symmetry group in the light-cone gauge.

1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (16) ◽  
pp. 1251-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
NOUREDDINE MOHAMMEDI

We find the relationship between the Jackiw-Teitelboim model of two-dimensional gravity and the SL (2, R) induced gravity. These are shown to be related to a two-dimensional gauge theory obtained by dimensionally reducing the Chern-Simons action of the 2+1 dimensional gravity. We present an explicit solution to the equations of motion of the auxiliary field of the Jackiw-Teitelboim model in the light-cone gauge. A renormalization of the cosmological constant is also given.


1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 125-131
Author(s):  
ANAIS SMAILAGIC

Perturbative calculation of two-dimensional (1, 0) supergravity due to gravitation fluctuations is performed. Renormalization of Kac-Moody central charge of SL(2, R) graded current algebra and wave function to one-loop is obtained. The result agrees perfectly with Polyakov’s formula in the large d region.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (25) ◽  
pp. 2263-2268 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHANG-JUN AHN ◽  
WON-TAE KIM ◽  
YOUNG-JAI PARK ◽  
KEE YONG KIM ◽  
YONGDUK KIM

We show that the light-cone and conformal gauges are equivalent in the sense that the well known SL (2, ℝ) current structure in the light-cone gauge is obtained from the results in the conformal one under a proper coordinate transformation. This result is due to the residual symmetry of the scalar field Φ.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (27) ◽  
pp. 6907-6932 ◽  
Author(s):  
LINA JEAN-MARC ◽  
PRASANTA K. PANIGRAHI

The Lax-pair formulation of the two-dimensional induced gravity in the light-cone gauge is extended to the more general wN theories. After presenting the w2 and w3 gravities, we give a general prescription for an arbitrary wN case. This is further illustrated with the w4 gravity to point out some peculiarities. The constraints and the possible presence of the cosmological constants are systematically exhibited in the zero-curvature condition, which also yields the relevant Ward identities. The restrictions on the gauge parameters in the presence of the constraints are pointed out too, and are contrasted with those of the ordinary 2D gravity.


1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (38) ◽  
pp. 3517-3524 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN-MARC LINA ◽  
PRASANTA K. PANIGRAHI

We present the Lax pair to describe the two-dimensional induced gravity in the light-cone gauge. This is done at the classical level, with the cosmological constant which so far has not been accounted for in this context. The symmetries are discussed, together with some solutions of the integrability conditions. The case of the W3 gravity is also analyzed; exhibiting some special solutions and highlighting the roles of the two cosmological constants in its Lax pair formulation.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (35) ◽  
pp. 3291-3302 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIYONORI YAMADA

We show that the two-dimensional gravity coupled to c=−2 matter field in Polyakov’s light-cone gauge has a twisted N=2 superconformal algebra. We also show that the BRST cohomology in the light-cone gauge actually coincides with that in the conformal gauge. Based on this observation the relations between the topological algebras are discussed.


1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (13) ◽  
pp. 2331-2346 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAI-WEN XU ◽  
CHUAN-JIE ZHU

We study the symmetry of two-dimensional gravity by choosing a generic gauge. A local action is derived which reduces to either the Liouville action or the Polyakov one by reducing to the conformal or light-cone gauge respectively. The theory is also solved classically. We show that an SL (2, R) covariant gauge can be chosen so that the two-dimensional gravity has a manifest Virasoro and the sl (2, R)-current symmetry discovered by Polyakov. The symmetry algebra of the light-cone gauge is shown to be isomorphic to the Beltrami algebra. By using the contour integration method we construct the BRST charge QB corresponding to this algebra following the Fradkin-Vilkovisky procedure and prove that the nilpotence of QB requires c=28 and α0=1. We give a simple interpretation of these conditions.


2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 1491-1502 ◽  
Author(s):  
MITSUO ABE ◽  
NOBORU NAKANISHI

It is shown that the BRS (= Becchi–Rouet–Stora)-formulated two-dimensional BF theory in the light-cone gauge (coupled with chiral Dirac fields) is solved very easily in the Heisenberg picture. The structure of the exact solution is very similar to that of the BRS-formulated two-dimensional quantum gravity in the conformal gauge. In particular, the BRS Noether charge has anomaly. Based on this fact, a criticism is made on the reasoning of Kato and Ogawa, who derived the critical dimension D=26 of string theory on the basis of the anomaly of the BRS Noether charge. By adding the [Formula: see text] term to the BF-theory Lagrangian density, the exact solution to the two-dimensional Yang–Mills theory is also obtained.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (40) ◽  
pp. 3777-3782 ◽  
Author(s):  
FIORENZO BASTIANELLI

Quantization of two-dimensional chiral matter coupled to gravity induces an effective action for the zweibein field which is both Weyl and Lorentz anomalous. Recently, the quantization of this induced action has been analyzed in the light-cone gauge as well as in the conformal gauge. An apparent mismatch between the results obtained in the two gauges is analyzed and resolved by properly treating the Lorentz field as a chiral boson.


1989 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. FLOREANINI

Semiclassical Einstein equations for two-dimensional gravity are investigated in lightcone gauge and their group of invariance is discussed. One finds differences with respect to the corresponding results in conformal gauge.


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