ON THE POSSIBILITY OF ZN EXOTIC SUPERSYMMETRY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X92002246MaRDI QIDQ4523816zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Francesco Ravanini

Publication date 14 January 2001

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9109057

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We investigate the possibility to construct extended parafermionic conformal algebras whose generating current has spin $1+frac1K$, generalizing the superconformal (spin 3/2) and the Fateev Zamolodchikov (spin 4/3) algebras. Models invariant under such algebras would possess $Z_K$ exotic supersymmetries satisfying (supercharge)${}^K$ = (momentum). However, we show that for $K=4$ this new algebra allows only for models at $c=1$, for $K=5$ it is a trivial rephrasing of the ordinary $Z_5$ parafermionic model, for $K=6,7$ (and, requiring unitarity, for all larger $K$) such algebras do not exist. Implications of this result for existence of exotic supersymmetry in two dimensional field theory are discussed.

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