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Symmetries of Dimensionally Reduced String Effective Action

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Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time

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The ten dimensional heterotic string effective action with graviton, dilaton and antisymmetric tensor fields is dimensionally reduced to two spacetime dimensions. The resulting theory, with some constraints on backgrounds, admits infinite sequence of conserved nonlocal currents. It is shown that generators of the infinitesimal transformations associated with these currents satisfy Kac-Moody algebra.

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  1. Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, 751005, India

    Jnanadeva Maharana

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  1. University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerard ’t Hooft

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Arthur Jaffe

  3. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Gerhard Mack

  4. CNRS, University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

    Pronob K. Mitter

  5. Laboratory of Particle Physics, Annecy-le-Vieux, Annecy-le-Vieux, France

    Raymond Stora

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Maharana, J. (1997). Symmetries of Dimensionally Reduced String Effective Action. In: ’t Hooft, G., Jaffe, A., Mack, G., Mitter, P.K., Stora, R. (eds) Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time. NATO ASI Series, vol 364. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1801-7_14

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