We study the structure of both the affine and classical affine W-algebras associated with Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras of type A.
After reviewing the definitions of vertex algebras and Poisson vertex algebras and recalling the correspondence be...
We study the structure of both the affine and classical affine W-algebras associated with Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras of type A.
After reviewing the definitions of vertex algebras and Poisson vertex algebras and recalling the correspondence between them, we introduce the two equivalent formulations of the classical affine W-algebra and explain how they correspond to the affine W-algebra.
We then analyze the structural properties of affine W-algebras, focusing in particular on the Hamiltonian operators and strong generating sets that appear in both the quantum and classical settings.
Furthermore, we examine the relations between the generators of these two algebras and clarify how the conformal structures are preserved under the quasiclassical limit.
In the latter part of the paper, we construct explicit weak generating sets for affine W-algebras with both large and small conformal weights.
For the large weight cases, we provide construction for classical affine W-algebras $\mathcal{W}^k(\mathfrak{sl}_N, f)$, $\mathcal{W}^k(\mathfrak{sl}_{N_1\mid N_2}, f)$ and affine W-algebras $W^k(\mathfrak{sl}_N, f)$, $W^k(\mathfrak{sl}_{N_1\mid N_2}, f)$.
Analogous results are obtained for the small weight cases, where we describe their inductive generation mechanisms.
Finally, several examples are given, including the principal, rectangular and minimal nilpotent cases, as well as examples associated with the Lie superalgebras $\mathfrak{sl}_{n+1\mid n}$ and $\mathfrak{sl}_{m\mid n}$ with $m\geq n+2$, which demonstrate the general theory developed in this thesis.