ANOMALIES AND CURVATURE OF W-MANIFOLDS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We study the holomorphic structure of certain complex manifolds associated with W algebras, namely, the flag manifolds W/T and W1+/T1+, and the spaces W/SL(),R) and W1+/GL(,R), where T and T1+ are the maximal tori in W and W1+. We compute their Ricci curvature and show how the results are related to the anomaly-freedom conditions for W and W1+. We discuss the relation of these manifolds with extensions of universal Teichmller space. 1991 Springer-Verlag.

published proceedings

  • COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • POPE, C. N., ROMANS, L. J., SEZGIN, E., & SHEN, X.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • POPE, CN||ROMANS, LJ||SEZGIN, E||SHEN, X

publication date

  • August 1991