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# Conformal field theories: From old to new

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Impact Factor: 0.7). 10/1998; 117(2):1286-1290. DOI: 10.1007/BF02557168
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT We discuss the general problem of constructing the actions of new conformal field theories from old conformal field theories.
As an example, we discuss the new spin-2 gauged sigma models that arise from the general conformal nonlinear sigma model.

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