A classification of the unitarizable highest weight modules for affine Lie superalgebras (Q1332196)

This paper gives a complete description of all unitarizable highest weight modules of affine Lie superalgebras (i.e. loop algebras over the basic classical Lie superalgebras and central extensions thereof). It is a continuation of the analogous classification for affine Kac-Moody algebras [the author and \textit{V. Kac}, J. Funct. Anal. 82, 69-90 (1989; Zbl 0688.17007)]. For affine Kac-Moody algebras there is, besides a class of unitarizable highest weight modules which act trivially on the center, only for \(A_ n^{(1)}\) another class with nontrivial central action. Using this, only affine Lie superalgebras based upon a classical Lie superalgebra \(G\) with \(A_ n\) or \(\mathbb{C}\) as a summand in its even part \(G_ 0\) should be considered as candidates having classes of unitarizable highest weight modules with nontrivial center. As a consequence, the case \(\text{sl}^{(1)}(n,m)\) is considered first and treated completely. Following this, the remaining cases to be considered are the affine Lie superalgebras based upon \(D(2,1;\alpha)\), \(F(4)\), \(G(3)\), \(B(0,n)\), \(B(1,n)\), \(B(m,1)\), \(C(n)\), \(D(m,1)\), \(D(2,n)\) and \(D(3,n)\).