{ "id": "1202.5808", "version": "v1", "published": "2012-02-27T00:46:47.000Z", "updated": "2012-02-27T00:46:47.000Z", "title": "The gauging of two-dimensional bosonic sigma models on world-sheets with defects", "authors": [ "Krzysztof Gawedzki", "Rafal R. Suszek", "Konrad Waldorf" ], "comment": "94 pages, 1 figure", "journal": "Rev. Math. Phys 25 (2013) 1350010", "doi": "10.1142/S0129055X13500104", "categories": [ "hep-th" ], "abstract": "We extend our analysis of the gauging of rigid symmetries in bosonic two-dimensional sigma models with Wess-Zumino terms in the action to the case of world-sheets with defects. A structure that permits a non-anomalous coupling of such sigma models to world-sheet gauge fields of arbitrary topology is analysed, together with obstructions to its existence, and the classification of its inequivalent choices.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2012-02-27T00:46:47.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "two-dimensional bosonic sigma models", "bosonic two-dimensional sigma models", "world-sheet gauge fields", "inequivalent choices", "wess-zumino terms" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "journal": "Reviews in Mathematical Physics", "year": 2013, "month": "Jul", "volume": 25, "number": 6, "pages": 1350010 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 94, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1090760, "adsabs": "2013RvMaP..2550010G" } } }