-deformed WZW models from Chern-Simons gravity with mixed boundary conditions
Miao He (School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China); Yi-hong Gao (CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)
In this work we consider gravitational theory with certain mixed boundary conditions at infinity. Using the Chern-Simons formalism of gravity, we find that these mixed boundary conditions lead to nontrivial boundary terms, which, in turn, produce exactly the spectrum of the -deformed conformal field theories (CFTs). We then follow the procedure for constructing asymptotic boundary dynamics of to derive the constrained -deformed Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model from Chern-Simons gravity. The resulting theory turns out to be the -deformed Alekseev-Shatashvili action after disentangling the constraints. Furthermore, by adding a gauge field associated to the current , we obtain one type of the -deformed WZW model, and show that its action can also be constructed from the gravity side. These results provide a check on the correspondence between the -deformed CFTs and the deformations of boundary conditions of , the latter of which may be regarded as coordinate transformations.