Resolutions and characters of irreducible representations of the N = 2 superconformal algebra

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 536, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 617-656

  Feigin, B L ^a   Semikhatov, A M ^b   Sirota, V A ^b   Tipunin, I Yu ^b  

^a LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chracters; Resolutions; Spectral flow; Super virasoro algebra; Verma module

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032576508     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00615-4     Document Type: Article

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