Lie subalgebras of differential operators on the super circle (Q1423887)
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Lie subalgebras of differential operators on the super circle (English)
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7 March 2004
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In mid 90s, \textit{V. Kac} and \textit{A. Radul} [Commun. Math. Phys. 157, 429--457 (1993; Zbl 0826.17027)] discovered a nice relationship between the Lie algebra of differential operators on the circle, \(\mathcal{W}_{1+\infty}\), and the Lie algebra of inifinite matrices \(\text{ gl}_\infty\). They were able to describe all interesting representations of \(\mathcal{W}_{1+\infty}\) by using a convenient series of embeddings of \(\mathcal{W}_{1+\infty}\) into \(\text{ gl}_\infty\). Since then several generalizations have been obtained. In particular, it is of interest to: (i) study classical subalgebras of \(\mathcal{W}_{1+\infty}\) and their relationship with classical Lie algebras of infinite matrices [see \textit{V. Kac}, \textit{W. Wang} and \textit{C. Yan}, Adv. Math. 139, 56--140 (1998; Zbl 0938.17018)], (ii) explore a possible superextension, by replacing the circle by super-circle, and differential operators by superdifferential operators. In this paper Wang and Cheng pursue the latter direction. Even though it requires an effort to obtain all results in parallel to Kac-Radul's and Kac-Wang-Yan's papers, all the results are expected. The exposition is concise and nicely written.
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differential operators
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W-algebras
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conformal field theory
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