A family of Weyl λ-BMS algebras is realized canonically from a Klein-Gordon field, centrally extended, and shown to have BRST cohomology matching an N=2 superconformal chiral ring, while the conformal BMS W-algebra is shown to admit no BRST complex.
Are all TCFTs obtained by twisting N=2 SCFTs?
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A large class of two-dimensional topological conformal field theories (TCFTs) are obtained by the twisting construction of Witten and Eguchi-Yang. However there seem to exist TCFTs which are not obtained in this way; for instance, TCFTs obtained from the Kazama algebra and critical string theories with generic background. We will show that by embedding the critical bosonic string into the NSR string, its TCFT can indeed be obtained by twisting a N=2 SCFT. A closer look at the construction of the N=2 superconformal algebra will show that the embedding is not essential, and this will tell us how to generalise this to other string theories. We thus conclude with the natural conjecture that _all_ TCFTs have a description as topologically twisted N=2 SCFTs. (Talk given at the Workshop on Strings, Gravity and Related Topics, held at the ICTP (Trieste, Italy) on 29-30 June, 1995.)
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BMS-like algebras: canonical realisations and BRST quantisation
A family of Weyl λ-BMS algebras is realized canonically from a Klein-Gordon field, centrally extended, and shown to have BRST cohomology matching an N=2 superconformal chiral ring, while the conformal BMS W-algebra is shown to admit no BRST complex.