Abstract
We use the orbifold approach to confirm the formula of Felder, Gawedzki and Kupiainen for the one-loop partition function of strings on nonsimply-connected group manifolds.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 343-348 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
Volume | 223 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 15 Jun 1989 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Work supported by the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. Supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from NSERC of Canada. ~ This was conjectured for SU (3) in ref. \[5 \]. ~2 Many of these may also be derived from the branching rules for the conformal embedding~u (p)q®~u (q)P c~u (pq) ~ \[1 0\].