On the completeness of the set of classical W-algebras obtained from DS reductions

DOI10.1007/BF02102024MaRDI QIDQ1328206zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe Ruelle, L. Fehér, L. O'Raifeartaigh, Izumi Tsutsui

Publication date 9 October 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9304125

zbMATH Keywords

\(W\)-algebrasDrinfeld-Sokolov reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: We clarify the notion of the DS --- generalized Drinfeld-Sokolov --- reduction approach to classical $calW$-algebras. We first strengthen an earlier theorem which showed that an $sl(2)$ embedding $calSsubsetcalG$ can be associated to every DS reduction. We then use the fact that a $W$-algebra must have a quasi-primary basis to derive severe restrictions on the possible reductions corresponding to a given $sl(2)$ embedding. In the known DS reductions found to date, for which the $W$-algebras are denoted by ${calW}_{calS}^{calG}$-algebras and are called canonical, the quasi-primary basis corresponds to the highest weights of the $sl(2)$. Here we find some examples of noncanonical DS reductions leading to $W$-algebras which are direct products of ${calW}_{calS}^{calG}$-algebras and `free field' algebras with conformal weights $Deltain0,1over2,1$. We also show that if the conformal weights of the generators of a $calW$-algebra obtained from DS reduction are nonnegative $Deltageq0$ (which is

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