BRST cohomology of the super-Virasoro algebras

DOI10.1007/BF01217910zbMath0693.17014MaRDI QIDQ584377

Gregg J. Zuckerman, Bong H. Lian

Publication date: 1989

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

zbMATH Keywords

modular functionssuper Virasoro algebrasBRST cohomologysemi-infinite cohomologyvanishing theorem

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) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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