W-symmetry in Conformal Field Theory

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23 December 1992

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9210010

Abstract

We review various aspects of $\cW$-algebra symmetry in two-dimensional conformal field theory and string theory. We pay particular attention to the construction of $\cW$-algebras through the quantum Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction and through the coset construction.

Keywords

CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY
SOKOLOV REDUCTION
DRINFELD SOKOLOV
STRING THEORY
FIELD THEORY
ATTENTION
ALGEBRAS

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