Published July 25, 1991
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Journal article
Polyakov construction of the N=2 super-W3 algebra
Creators
- 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
- 2. Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Description
Using Polyakov's 'soldering' procedure, applied to the supergroup SL(nvertical stroken-1), we show how one may obtain an N = 2 supersymmetrisation of the Wn extended conformal algebras, at the classical level. These algebras differ from previously-constructed superextensions in that there are no restrictions on the value of the central charge. The generators comprise one with conformal spin 1, one with conformal spin n, and two for each integer and half-integer spin between 3/2 and n-1/2 inclusively. We give the explicit results for the n = 3 case. These N = 2 superalgebras can be 'twisted', and we give explicit results for n = 3. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 264
- Journal Issue
- 1/2
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 91-100
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 23019968
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGEBRA; CONFORMAL GROUPS; SL GROUPS; SPIN; SUPERSYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Grant DE-AS05-81ER40039; DE-FG03-84ER40168