WZW-Toda Reduction using the Casimir Operator

Abstract

We construct a quantum Hamiltonian operator for the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model in terms of the Casimir operator. This facilitates the discussion of the reduction of the WZW model to Toda field theory at the quantum level and provides a very straightforward derivation of the quantum central charge for the Toda field theory.

16pp, uses harvmac, LTH 304 (Revised version with improved discussion of non-perturbative effects)

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