Formal and analytic deformations of the Witt algebra (Q1282053)

From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Formal and analytic deformations of the Witt algebra
scientific article

    Statements

    Formal and analytic deformations of the Witt algebra (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    12 March 2000
    0 references
    The Witt algebra \(W\) (or the Virasoro algebra without central term) is the complex Lie algebra with basis \(\{l_n\mid n\in{\mathbb Z} \}\) fulfilling the commutation relations \([l_n,l_m]=(m-n)l_{n+m}\). In one of its standard realisations: \(l_n=z^{n+1}d/dz\). In this article formal deformations, i.e. Lie algebra structures on \(W[[t]]\) and analytic deformations of an adic completion of the Witt algebra \(\widehat{W}\) (i.e. passing from Laurent polynomials to Laurent series) are considered. More precisely, certain deformations \(W_{tf}\), resp. \(\widehat{W}_{tf}\) defined over the space of even polynomials \(f\) in the variable \(z\) are studied. From cohomological arguments it follows \(W[[t]]\cong W_{tf}\) over \(\mathbb C[[t]]\). The author shows that one also obtains \(\widehat{W}\cong \widehat{W}_{tf}\) for the adic completion . This is extended to the smooth situation (the space of smooth vector fields on the sphere \(S^1\)) \(\widehat{W}^{\infty}\cong \widehat{W}_{f}^{\infty}\) if \(f\) is close to 0. In this case certain results on the holomorphic dependence on \(f\) are obtained. As special examples of this type of deformation, the Krichever-Novikov algebras on the torus studied by \textit{A. Ruffing, T. Deck} and \textit{M. Schlichenmaier} [Lett. Math. Phys. 26, 23-32 (1992; Zbl 0774.17027)] are considered. In this context it should be noted that the adically completed Krichever-Novikov algebra with respect to the Krichever-Novikov basis is isomorphic to the adically completed Witt algebra with respect to an arbitrary choice of local coordinates.
    0 references
    Virasoro algebra
    0 references
    central extensions
    0 references
    formal deformations
    0 references
    Witt algebra
    0 references
    Krichever-Novikov algebras
    0 references

    Identifiers

    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references