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    The hamiltonian reduction of the BRST complex and N=2 SUSY

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    We study the nonunitary representations of N=2 Super Virasoro algebra for the rational central charges c<3. The resolutions for the irreducible representations of N=2 SVir in terms of the "2-d gravity modules" are obtained and their characters are computed. The correspondence between the N=2 nonunitary "minimal" models and the Virasoro minimal models coupled to 2-d gravity is shown at the level of states. We also define the hamiltonian reduction of the BRST complex of sl(N)/sl(N) coset to the BRST complex of the W-gravity coupled to the W matter. The case of sl(2) is considered explicitly. It leads to the presentation of N=2 Super Virasoro algebra by the Lie algebra cohomology. Finally, we reveal the mechanism of the correspondence between sl(2)/sl(2)$ coset and 2-d gravity.Comment: 28 pages, 6 pictures available on request; in the revised version some misprints are correcte

    On Root Multiplicities of Some Hyperbolic Kac-Moody Algebras

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    Using the coset construction, we compute the root multiplicities at level three for some hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras including the basic hyperbolic extension of A1(1)A_1^{(1)} and E10E_{10}.Comment: 10 pages, LaTe

    A note on the algebraic engineering of 4D N=2\mathcal{N}=2 super Yang-Mills theories

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    Some BPS quantities of N=1\mathcal{N}=1 5D quiver gauge theories, like instanton partition functions or qq-characters, can be constructed as algebraic objects of the Ding-Iohara-Miki (DIM) algebra. This construction is applied here to N=2\mathcal{N}=2 super Yang-Mills theories in four dimensions using a degenerate version of the DIM algebra. We build up the equivalent of horizontal and vertical representations, the first one being defined using vertex operators acting on a free boson's Fock space, while the second one is essentially equivalent to the action of Vasserot-Shiffmann's Spherical Hecke central algebra. Using intertwiners, the algebraic equivalent of the topological vertex, we construct a set of T\mathcal{T}-operators acting on the tensor product of horizontal modules, and the vacuum expectation values of which reproduce the instanton partition functions of linear quivers. Analysing the action of the degenerate DIM algebra on the T\mathcal{T}-operator in the case of a pure U(m)U(m) gauge theory, we further identify the degenerate version of Kimura-Pestun's quiver W-algebra as a certain limit of q-Virasoro algebra. Remarkably, as previously noticed by Lukyanov, this particular limit reproduces the Zamolodchikov-Faddeev algebra of the sine-Gordon model.Comment: 13 pages (v3: references added

    Ternary Virasoro - Witt Algebra

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    A 3-bracket variant of the Virasoro-Witt algebra is constructed through the use of su(1,1) enveloping algebra techniques. The Leibniz rules for 3-brackets acting on other 3-brackets in the algebra are discussed and verified in various situations.Comment: 6 pages, Late
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