Il Nuovo Cimento B (1971-1996)

, Volume 111, Issue 8, pp 1011–1021 | Cite as

On the algebra of field-dependent gauge transformations

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Summary

The Whitehead operation on a world sheet foliation gives rise to a symmetryG of String Field Theory. Deformations ofG can also be realized on a generalized sigma-model, a mechanics particle action, and on Yang-Mills theory.

PACS

04.20 Classical general relativity. 

PACS

02.20.Fh Infinite groups 

PACS

03.50.Kk Other special classical field theories 

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11.17 Theories of strings and other extended objects 
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© Società Italiana di Fisica 1996

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institute for Theoretical PhysicsSUNY at Stony BrookStony BrookUSA

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