Differential conformal superalgebras and their forms

We introduce the formalism of differential conformal superalgebras, which we show leads to the “correct” automorphism group functor and accompanying descent theory in the conformal setting. As an application, we classify forms of N=2 and N=4 conformal superalgebras by means of Galois cohomology.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kac, Victor, Lau, Michael, Pianzola, Arturo
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64403
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2860-7811