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arxiv: math/0401164 · v1 · submitted 2004-01-14 · 🧮 math.QA · hep-th· math-ph· math.MP

W⁽²⁾_n algebras

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We construct W-algebra generalizations of the ^sl(2) algebra -- W-algebras W^{(2)}_n generated by two currents E and F with the highest pole of order n in their OPE. The n=3 term in this series is the Bershadsky--Polyakov algebra. We define these algebras as a centralizer (commutant) of the $U_{q}sl(n|1)$ super quantum group and explicitly find the generators in a factored, ``Miura-like'' form. Another construction of W^{(2)}_n is in terms of the coset ^sl(n|1)/^sl(n). The relation between the two constructions involves the ``duality'' (k+n-1)(k'+n-1)=1 between levels k and k' of two ^sl(n) algebras.

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