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The Whitehead operation on a world sheet foliation gives rise to a symmetryG of String Field Theory. Deformations ofG can also be realized on a generalized sigma-model, a mechanics particle action, and on Yang-Mills theory.
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Gasparakis, C. On the algebra of field-dependent gauge transformations. Nuov Cim B 111, 1011–1021 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02743297
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