Journal article
APPLICATIONS OF W ALGEBRAS TO BF THEORIES, QCD AND 4D GRAVITY
Modern physics letters A, Vol.7(19), pp.1725-1736
06/21/1992
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732392001427
Abstract
We are able to show that BF theories naturally emerge from the coadjoint orbits of W2 and ω∞ algebras which includes a Kac-Moody sector. Since QCD strings can be identified with a BF theory, we are able to show a relationship between the orbits and monopole-string solutions of QCD. Furthermore, we observe that when 4D gravitation is cast into a BF form through the use of Ashtekar variables, we are able to get order ħ contributions to gravity which can be associated with the W2 anomaly. We comment on the relationship to gravitational monopoles.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- APPLICATIONS OF W ALGEBRAS TO BF THEORIES, QCD AND 4D GRAVITY
- Creators
- R.P Lano - University of IowaV.G.J Rodgers - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Modern physics letters A, Vol.7(19), pp.1725-1736
- DOI
- 10.1142/S0217732392001427
- ISSN
- 0217-7323
- eISSN
- 1793-6632
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/21/1992
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199857702771
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