EMBEDDING OF THE BOSONIC STRING INTO THE W-3 STRING Academic Article

abstract

• We investigate new realisations of the W3 algebra with arbitrary central charge, making use of the fact that this algebra can be linearised by the inclusion of a spin-1 current. We use the new realisations with c = 102 and c = 100 to build non-critical and critical W3 BRST operators. Both of these can be converted by local canonical transformations into a BRST operator for the Virasoro string with c = 28 f- 2, together with a Kugo-Ojima topological term. Consequently, these realisations provide embeddings of the Virasoro string into non-critical and critical W3 strings. 1995.

authors

• Pope, Christopher

published proceedings

• PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

• LU, H., POPE, C. N., STELLE, K. S., & XU, K. W.

citation count

• 6

publication date

• May 1995

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00379-Y

start page

• 179

end page

• 187

volume

• 351

issue

• 1-3