Unitarizable highest weight modules of the N = 2 super virasoro algebras: Untwisted sectors

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-305

  Iohara, Kenji ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

N = 2 super Virasoro algebras; Unitarizable modules

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949776050     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-010-0375-7     Document Type: Article

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