A New N = 4 Superconformal Algebra
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چکیده
It is shown that the previously known N = 3 and N = 4 superconformal algebras can be contracted consistently by singular scaling of some of the generators. For the later case, by a contraction which depends on the central term, we obtain a new N = 4 superconformal algebra which contains an SU(2)×U(1) Kac-Moody subalgebra and has nonzero central extension.
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