UNITARITY OF RATIONAL N=2 SUPERCONFORMAL THEORIES

Citation
W. Eholzer et Mr. Gaberdiel, UNITARITY OF RATIONAL N=2 SUPERCONFORMAL THEORIES, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 186(1), 1997, pp. 61-85
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematical Method, Physical Science","Physycs, Mathematical
ISSN journal
00103616
Volume
186
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
61 - 85
Database
ISI
SICI code
0010-3616(1997)186:1<61:UORNST>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We demonstrate that all rational models of the N = 2 super Virasoro al gebra are unitary. Our arguments are based on three different methods: we determine Zhu's algebra A(H-0) (for which we give a physically mot ivated derivation) explicitly for certain theories, we analyse the mod ular properties of some of the vacuum characters, and we use the coset realisation of the algebra in terms of su(2) and two free fermions. S ome of our arguments generalise to the Kazama-Suzuki models indicating that all rational N = 2 supersymmetric models might be unitary.