Towards Deformed Chiral Algebras

Abstract

We describe a new algebraic structure of "deformed chiral algebra" motivated by the study of the deformed W-algebras. We use it to gain some insights into the deformed Virasoro algebra.

18 pages, AMSLATEX. Contribution to the Proceedings of the Quantum Group Symposium at the XXIth International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Goslar 1996