W-Strings on Group Manifolds

Abstract

We present a procedure for constructing actions describing propagation of W-strings on group manifolds by using the Hamiltonian canonical formalism and representations of W-algebras in terms of Kac-Moody currents. An explicit construction is given in the case of the $W_3$ string.

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• Classical and Quantum W-Gravity

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