Coset construction for extended Virasoro algebras

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(88)90632-3zbMath0675.17010MaRDI QIDQ1121972

Peter Bouwknegt, F. Alexander Bais, Kareljan Schoutens, M. Surridge

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: http://dare.uva.nl/personal/pure/en/publications/coset-construction-for-extended-virasoro-algebras(742060d4-5bc0-4a59-a0fa-282549be9d09).html

zbMATH Keywords

extensions; Lie algebra; Virasoro algebra; Casimir invariants; Sugawara construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B67: Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

17B65: Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras

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