BRST cohomology and highest weight vectors. I

DOI10.1007/BF02104121zbMath0719.17015MaRDI QIDQ2639946

Bong H. Lian, Gregg J. Zuckerman

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

semi-infinite cohomologyBRST-cohomologybosonic string modelnon-compact coset conformal field theoryrank one non-compact coset model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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