Ricci tensors on some infinite dimensional Lie algebras (Q1284050)

It is an important and delicate problem to construct the Ricci tensor on an infinite dimensional manifold and to study its properties. The author gives the corresponding construction for a free loop group and a central extension of a based loop group. Given a finite dimensional semisimple Lie group \(G\) with Lie algebra \(g\), denote by \(H_0({g})\) the space of left invariant vector fields on the based loop group \(L_e(G)=\{l:[0,1]\to G\mid l(0)=l(1)=e\}\) and let \(\widetilde{L}({g})=H_0({g})\oplus\mathbb{R}\) be its central extension. The author introduces two metrics on \(\widetilde{L}({g})\) and computes the Ricci tensors of the Levi-Civita connections generated by them. In addition, he considers the space \(L({g})\) of periodic functions \(\mathbb{R}\to {g}\) of the class \(C^2\) of period 1, endows it with the metric \[ \langle h,h\rangle_\varepsilon=\int_0^1\|h(\theta)\|^2_{g} d\theta+ \int_0^1\|\dot h(\theta)\|^2_{g} d\theta \] and studies the asymptotic behavior of the corresponding Ricci tensor \(\text{Ric}^\varepsilon\) as \(\varepsilon\) goes to zero. Namely, \[ \lim_{\varepsilon\to 0}\sqrt\varepsilon\langle \text{Ric}^\varepsilon h, h\rangle_\varepsilon ={1\over 16}\int_0^1\|h(\theta)\|^2d\theta. \]