The non-critical \(N=2\) string is an \(sl(2|{}1)\) theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00392-6zbMath0925.81198arXivhep-th/9604105OpenAlexW2100190674MaRDI QIDQ1923126

A. M. Semikhatov

Publication date: 1 October 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9604105

zbMATH Keywords

affine Lie algebrastopological stringssubalgebra embeddingsWakimoto representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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