Review of W Strings
| dc.creator | Pope, C. N. | |
| dc.date | 1992-04-28 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:18:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:18:45Z | |
| dc.description | We review some of the recent developments in the construction of $W$-string theories. These are generalisations of ordinary strings in which the two-dimensional ``worldsheet'' theory, instead of being a gauging of the Virasoro algebra, is a gauging of a higher-spin extension of the Virasoro algebra---a $W$ algebra. Despite the complexity of the (non-linear) $W$ algebras, it turns out that the spectrum can be computed completely and explicitly for more or less any $W$ string. The result is equivalent to a set of spectra for Virasoro strings with unusual central charge and intercepts. | |
| dc.description | 13 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9204093 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9204093 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/53314 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Review of W Strings | |
| dc.type | text |