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All chiral ${\cal W}$-algebra extensions of $\mathfrak{so}(2,3)$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-07-25 v2

Abstract

We show that there are four chiral W{\cal W}-algebra extensions of so(2,3)\mathfrak{so}(2,3) algebra and construct them explicitly. We do this by a simple identification of each of the inequivalent embeddings of a copy of sl(2,R)\mathfrak{sl}(2,{\mathbb R}) in the so(2,3)\mathfrak{so}(2,3) algebra and the maximal subalgebra h\mathfrak{h} that commutes with it. Then using the standard 2d chiral CFT techniques we find the corresponding W{\cal W}-algebra extensions. Two of the four resultant W{\cal W}-algebras are new, one of which may be thought of as the conformal bms3\mathfrak{bms}_3 algebra valid for finite values of its central charge.}

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@article{arxiv.2304.14938,
  title  = {All chiral ${\cal W}$-algebra extensions of $\mathfrak{so}(2,3)$},
  author = {Nishant Gupta and Nemani V. Suryanarayana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14938},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in JHEP. Elaborated introduction. Some calculations in the main text shifted to Appendix. References added