Published February 14, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

On the central charge for the W algebras

Creators

  • 1. Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules, 74 - Annecy-le-Vieux (France). Lab. de Physique des Particules

Description

For the W algebra that is built besides by the stress-energy tensor T by one additional field W we translate the (WWW) Jacobi-identity (that restricts in general the allowed values for the central charge) into a set of conditions on the structure constants CWWΦ and CΦWW with quasi-primary fields Φ. For the case where the additional field has half-integer dimension >3/2 we give a restriction on the possible central charges that includes that in this case c must be less than one. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
255
Journal Issue
3
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
337-342
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA