nLab analytically continued Wess-Zumino-Witten theory

Idea

WZW model for non-compact complex Lie groups such as $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$

Related concepts

• analytically continued Chern-Simons theory

• Liouville theory

References

• Nobuyuki Ishibashi, Extra Observables in Gauged WZW Models, Nucl.Phys. B379 (1992) 199-219 (arXiv:hep-th/9110071)

• Dmitri Sorokin, Francesco Toppan, Hamiltonian Reduction of Supersymmetric WZNW Models on Bosonic Groups and Superstrings, Nucl.Phys. B480 (1996) 457-484 (arXiv:hep-th/9603187)

• Jian-Feng Wu, Yang Zhou, From Liouville to Chern-Simons, Alternative Realization of Wilson Loop Operators in AGT Duality (arXiv:0911.1922)