Gauge Symmetry in Background Charge Conformal Field Theory *
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We present a mechanism to construct four-dimensional charged massless Ramond states using the discrete states of a fivebrane Liouville internal conformal field theory. This conformal field theory has background charge, and admits an inner product which allows positive norm states. A connection among supergravity soliton solutions, Liouville conformal field theory, non-critical string theory and their gauge symmetry properties is given. A generalized construction of the SU (2) super Kac-Moody algebra mixing with the N = 1 super Virasoro algebra is analyzed. How these Ramond states evade the DKV no-go theorem is explained.
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O ct 1 99 6 IFP / 102 / UNC GAUGE SYMMETRY IN BACKGROUND CHARGE CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY
We present a mechanism to construct four-dimensional charged massless Ramond states using the discrete states of a fivebrane Liouville internal conformal field theory. This conformal field theory has background charge, and admits an inner product which allows positive norm states. A connection among supergravity soliton solutions, Liouville conformal field theory, non-critical string theory and...
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