Super-Toda theories and W-algebras from superspace Wess-Zumino-Witten models (Q1193037)

By using the \(N=1\) superfield formalism it is shown that super-Toda theories can be identified with constrained super-symmetric gauged Wess- Zumino-Witten models associated with superalgebras admitting a completely fermionic simple root (FSR) system. General formulas for the decomposition of any simple Lie superalgebra \(\mathcal A\) with a complete FSR into representations of its superprincipal orthosymplectic embedding \(OSp(1| 2)_{\text{ppal}}\) are established. To each \(OSp(1| 2)_{\text{ppal}}\) representation a super-\(W\)-generator is attached belonging to the super-\(W\)-algebra as the symmetry algebra of the corresponding \(\mathcal A\)-super-Toda theory. The construction of the \(W\)- generators is achieved by a generalization of the Drinfeld-Sokolov (1985) type gauge to the supersymmetric case. On this basis the superconformal spin content of the \(W\)-generators associated with \(\mathcal A\)-super-Toda theory is deduced. In conclusion, the \(N=1\) super-Virasoro algebra from \(OSp(1| 2)\) theory as well as the algebra of Ademollo et al. from the \(SL(2.1)\) theory are explicitly constructed.