Formal group laws for affine Kac-Moody groups and group quantization (Q1098947)

Using formal power series and the structure constants of the corresponding Lie algebra, a group law is obtained defining a local group in the case \(\Omega SU^{\sim}(2)\). Then the group quantization formalism is applied, which was considered by the first author and \textit{J. A. de Azcárraga} in an earlier paper [compare J. Math. Phys. 23, 1297-1305 (1982; Zbl 0502.58018)], the left invariant vector fields, the connection form and the polarization subalgebra are derived. Spaces of wave functions on \(\Omega SU^{\sim}(2)\) make it possible to obtain representations of the corresponding Lie algebra. There are concluding remarks how the procedure may work in the general case of an affine Kac- Moody group \(\Omega G^{\sim}\), a central extension of the space of loops in the simple Lie group G.