Unitarity of rational N=2 superconformal theories

DOI10.1007/BF02885672zbMATH Open0897.17003arXivhep-th/9601163OpenAlexW3101604833MaRDI QIDQ1360565FDOQ1360565

Matthias R. Gaberdiel, W. Eholzer

Publication date: 6 January 1998

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

Abstract: We demonstrate that all rational models of the N=2 super Virasoro algebra are unitary. Our arguments are based on three different methods: we determine Zhu's algebra (for which we give a physically motivated derivation) explicitly for certain theories, we analyse the modular properties of some of the vacuum characters, and we use the coset realisation of the algebra in terms of su_2 and two free fermions. Some of our arguments generalise to the Kazama-Suzuki models indicating that all rational N=2 supersymmetric models might be unitary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601163

zbMATH Keywords

unitaryrational modelssuper Virasoro algebrasuper conformal theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Superalgebras (17A70) 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)

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