Virasoro Algebra and Asymptotic Symmetries from Fractional Bosonic Strings

Abstract

The aim of this work is to further study the fractional bosonic string theory. In particular, we wrote the energy-momentum tensor in the fractional conformal gauge and study their symmetries. We introduced the Virasoro operators of all orders. In fact, we found the same $L_0({\tilde{L}}_0)$ operator originally defined in the work of fractional bosonic string up to a shift transformation. Also, we compute the algebra of our Fractional Virasoro Operators, finding that the satifies the $Witt$ algebra. Lastly, we showed that in the boundary of our theory we recover the lost conservation law associated to $\tau$-diffeomorphism, proving that we have Poincaré invariance at the boundary.

21 pages + appendix; no figures; reference added and typos corrected