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Exact non-abelian duality

S. F. Hewson, M. J. Perry

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9603015

Abstract

We investigate non-abelian gaugings of WZNW models. When the gauged group is semisimple we are able to present exact formulae for the dual conformal field theory, for all values of the level k. The results are then applied to non-abelian target space duality in string theory, showing that the standard formulae are quantum mechanically well defined in the low energy limit if the gauged group is semisimple.

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