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Coset Models and Differential Geometry

Konstadinos Sfetsos

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9609165

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.

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