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Using the cohomological approach toW-algebras, we calculate characters and fusion coefficients for their representations obtained from modular invariant representations of affine algebras by the quantized Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction.
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Supported in part by Junior Fellowship from Harvard Society of Fellows
Supported in part by NSF grants DMS-8802489 and DMS-9103792
Supported in part by RIMS-91 Project
Communicated by A. Jaffe
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Frenkel, E., Kac, V. & Wakimoto, M. Characters and fusion rules forW-algebras via quantized Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction. Commun.Math. Phys. 147, 295–328 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096589
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