A conformally broken system as the constrained SL(2,R) WZNW model, its integrability and dressing symmetry

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of the conformally broken system related to the conformally invariant SL(2,R) WZNW model. Our starting point is such an action that is similar in form to the action of gauged WZNW theories developed by Balog et al. (1990). However, the Lagrangian multipliers in our case are assumed to take their values on the mixing of upper and lower Borel subalgebras of sl(2). The system obtained turns out to be an off-conformal extension of the sinh-Gordon model. Its integrability is displayed by the Lax formalism with an arbitrary spectral parameter, the classical r-matrix, and the hidden dressing symmetry.