LIGHT-CONE PARAMETRIZATIONS FOR KAHLER-MANIFOLDS

Citation
Jl. Gervais et Y. Matsuo, LIGHT-CONE PARAMETRIZATIONS FOR KAHLER-MANIFOLDS, Physics letters. Section B, 312(3), 1993, pp. 285-290
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
312
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
285 - 290
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1993)312:3<285:LPFK>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
It is shown that, for any Kahler manifold, there exist parametrization s such that the metric takes a block-form identical to the light-cone metric introduced by Polyakov for two-dimensional gravity. Besides its possible relevance for various aspects of Kahlerian geometry, this fa ct allows us to change gauge in W-gravities, and explicitly go from th e conformal (Toda) gauge to the light-cone gauge using the W-geometry we proposed earlier (this will be discussed in detail in a forthcoming article).