N=2 affine superalgebras and Hamiltonian reduction in N=2 superspace

DOI10.1007/BF02509802zbMATH Open0882.17012arXivhep-th/9508005MaRDI QIDQ2365002FDOQ2365002

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 2 March 1998

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

Abstract: We construct N=2 affine current algebras for the superalgebras sl(n|n-1)^{(1)} in terms of N=2 supercurrents subjected to nonlinear constraints and discuss the general procedure of the hamiltonian reduction in N=2 superspace at the classical level. We consider in detail the simplest case of N=2 sl(2|1)^{(1)} and show how N=2 superconformal algebra in N=2 superspace follows via the hamiltonian reduction. Applying the hamiltonian reduction to the case of N=2 sl(3|2)^{(1)}, we find two new extended N=2 superconformal algebras in a manifestly supersymmetric N=2 superfield form. Decoupling of four component currents of dimension 1/2 in them yields, respectively, u(2|1) and u(3) Knizhnik-Bershadsky superconformal algebras. We also discuss how the N=2 superfield formulations of N=2 W_{3} and N=2 W_{3}^{(2)} superconformal algebras come out in this framework, as well as some unusual extended N=2 superconformal algebras containing constrained N=2 stress tensor and/or spin 0 supercurrents.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508005

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian reductionsuperspacesuperconformal algebraaffine current algebrasKnizhnik-Bershadsky superconformal algebrassuperalgebras \(sl(n | n-1)^{(1)}\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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