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It is well known that the bosonized version of the Wakimoto construction allows the explicit realization of any affine algebra \(\widehat g\), with arbitrary level k in the homogeneous gradation, in terms of dim\(\left( g \right)\) free bosonic fields.However, its extension in the principal gradation has been achieved only in the simplest case k=1. In this Letter we show, in the case of the simplest affine algebra \(\widehat{{\text{sl(2)}}}\),that the bosonized Wakimoto realization can be extended to the principal gradation only when k is equal to the critical level, i.e., –2.In this case, this construction can be achieved in terms ofarbitrary number (larger than 1) of free bosonic fields.
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BOUGOURZI, A.H. Bosonized Wakimoto Construction in the Principal Gradation. Letters in Mathematical Physics 39, 261–267 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007398711048
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