On the fundamental representation of Borcherds algebras with one imaginary simple root

DOI10.1007/BF00762796zbMATH Open0807.17021arXivhep-th/9310139MaRDI QIDQ1334973FDOQ1334973

Reinhold W. Gebert, J. Teschner

Publication date: 26 September 1994

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Borcherds algebras represent a new class of Lie algebras which have almost all the properties that ordinary Kac-Moody algebras have, and the only major difference is that these generalized Kac-Moody algebras are allowed to have imaginary simple roots. The simplest nontrivial examples one can think of are those where one adds ``by hand one imaginary simple root to an ordinary Kac-Moody algebra. We study the fundamental representation of this class of examples and prove that an irreducible module is given by the full tensor algebra over some integrable highest weight module of the underlying Kac-Moody algebra. We also comment on possible realizations of these Lie algebras in physics as symmetry algebras in quantum field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9310139

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible modulefundamental representationgeneralized Kac-Moody algebrasimaginary simple rootsBorcherds algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

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