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Conformal field theories: From old to new

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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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  1. Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    J. de Boer

  2. Theoretical Physics Group, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

    M. B. Halpern

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We offer this contribution in memory of Dr. F. A. Lunev.

Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 221–226, November, 1998

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de Boer, J., Halpern, M.B. Conformal field theories: From old to new. Theor Math Phys 117, 1286–1290 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02557168

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