Hidden OSp(N,2) symmetries in superconformal field theories
Abstract
It is shown that th representation space of the OSp(N,2) current algebra reduces to that of the N-extended superconformal algebra by imposing constraints on currents. In the classical limit, this results gives the relation between the Wess-Zumino-Witten model for the OSp(N,2) group and the geometric action for the superconformal algebra.
On leave of absence from Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan. Address after September 1, 1989: The Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, USA.- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- October 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(89)90421-8
- Bibcode:
- 1989PhLB..229..374B