On the structure of quantum L_ algebras

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)163MaRDI QIDQ1709370zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralph Blumenhagen, Michael Fuchs, Matthias Traube

Publication date 27 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09034

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field models in string theoryconformal symmetryW symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: It is believed that any classical gauge symmetry gives rise to an L${}_{i}nfty$ algebra. Based on the recently realized relation between classical $calW$ algebras and L${}_{i}nfty$ algebras, we analyze how this generalizes to the quantum case. Guided by the existence of quantum $calW$ algebras, we provide a physically well motivated definition of quantum L${}_{i}nfty$ algebras describing the consistency of global symmetries in quantum field theories. In this case we are restricted to only two non-trivial graded vector spaces $X_0$ and $X_{-1}$ containing the symmetry variations and the symmetry generators. This quantum L${}_{i}nfty$ algebra structure is explicitly exemplified for the quantum ${calW}_3$ algebra. The natural quantum product between fields is the normal ordered one so that, due to contractions between quantum fields, the higher L${}_{i}nfty$ relations receive off-diagonal quantum corrections. Curiously, these are not present in the loop L${}_{i}nfty$ algebra of closed string field theory.

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