Asymptotic dynamics and asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional extended AdS supergravity (Q1581176)

This is a systematic study of the asymptotic dynamics and symmetries of all three-dimensional extended AdS supergravity models. The authors start from the Chern-Simons formulation and show explicitly that the (super) anti-de Sitter boundary conditions imply that the asymptotic symmetry algebra is the extended superconformal algebra with quadratic nonlinearities in the currents. Then there are obtained both the super-Liouville action and a realization of the superconformal algebras in terms of super-Liouville fields. Finally, a classification of extended conformal algebras is given and it is shown that they are related by the so called spectral flow transformations.