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Free Field Representations of Extended Superconformal Algebras

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We study the classical and quantum GG extended superconformal algebras from the hamiltonian reduction of affine Lie superalgebras, with even subalgebras Gsl(2)G\oplus sl(2). At the classical level we obtain generic formulas for the Poisson bracket structure of the algebra. At the quantum level we get free field (Feigin-Fuchs) representations of the algebra by using the BRST formalism and the free field realization of the affine Lie superalgebra. In particular we get the free field representation of the sl(2)sp(2N)sl(2)\oplus sp(2N) extended superconformal algebra from the Lie superalgebra osp(42N)osp(4|2N). We also discuss the screening operators of the algebra and the structure of singular vectors in the free field representation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9207009,
  title  = {Free Field Representations of Extended Superconformal Algebras},
  author = {Katsushi Ito and Jens Ole Madsen and Jens Lyng Petersen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9207009},
  year   = {2009}
}

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37 pages, Latex