Modules Over Affine Lie Superalgebras

arXivhep-th/9304122MaRDI QIDQ6468014FDOQ6468014

Jiang-Bei Fan, Ming Yu

Publication date: 26 April 1993

Abstract: Modules over affine Lie superalgebras $calG$ are studied, in particular, for $calG=hatOSP(1,2)$. It is shown that on studying Verma modules, much of the results in Kac-Moody algebra can be generalized to the super case. Of most importance are the generalized Kac-Kazhdan formula and the Malikov-Feigin-Fuchs construction, which give the weights and the explicit form of the singular vectors in the Verma module over affine Kac-Moody superalgebras. We have also considered the decomposition of the admissible representation of $hatOSP(1,2)$ into that of $hatSL(2)otimes$Virasoro algebra, through which we get the modular transformations on the torus and the fusion rules. Different boundary conditions on the torus correspond to the different modings of the current superalgebra and characters or super-characters, which might be relevant to the Hamiltonian reduction resulting in Neveu-Schwarz or Ramond superconformal algebras. Finally, the Felder BRST complex, which consists of Wakimoto modules by the free field realization, is constructed.

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