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Signature Characters for the Virasoro Algebra

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v2

Abstract

The number of ghost states at each energy level in a non-unitary conformal field theory is encoded in the signature characters of the relevant Virasoro algebra highest weight representations. We give expressions for these signature characters. These results complete Friedan-Qiu-Shenker's analysis of the Virasoro algebra's highest weight representations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9204081,
  title  = {Signature Characters for the Virasoro Algebra},
  author = {A. Kent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9204081},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pp. (Tex instructions corrected.)