Superstrings from Hamiltonian reduction.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)00539-QMaRDI QIDQ1571486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Boresch, Alexander Sevrin, Karl Landsteiner, W. Lerche

Publication date 10 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9408033

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) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: In any string theory there is a hidden, twisted superconformal symmetry algebra, part of which is made up by the BRST current and the anti-ghost. We investigate how this algebra can be systematically constructed for strings with $N!-!2$ supersymmetries, via quantum Hamiltonian reduction of the Lie superalgebras $osp(N|2)$. The motivation is to understand how one could systematically construct generalized string theories from superalgebras. We also briefly discuss the BRST algebra of the topological string, which is a doubly twisted $N!=!4$ superconformal algebra.

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