$u$-Deformed WZW Model and Its Gauging

Ctirad Klimčík

Institute de mathématiques de Luminy, 163, Avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille, France

Abstract: We review the description of a particular deformation of the WZW model. The resulting theory exhibits a Poisson–Lie symmetry with a non-Abelian cosymmetry group and can be vectorially gauged.

Keywords: gauged WZW model; Poisson–Lie symmetry.

MSC: 81T40

Received: September 28, 2006; Published online November 13, 2006

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2006.079

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ArXiv: math-ph/0609081