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higher dimensional WZW model

Idea

Analogs of the 2d WZW model in higher dimension.

Examples

• 4d WZW model

References

• Takeo Inami, Hiroaki Kanno and Tatsuya Ueno, Higher-dimensional WZW Model on Kähler Manifold and Toroidal Lie Algebra (arXiv:hep-th/9704010)

Boundary higher dimensional WZW models for nonabelian higher dimensional Chern-Simons theory are discussed in

• J. Gegenberg , G. Kunstatter, Boundary Dynamics of Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Gravity (arXiv:hep-th/0010020)

• J. Gegenberg , G. Kunstatter, Boundary Dynamics of Higher Dimensional AdS Spacetime (arXiv:hep-th/9905228)