Kac-Moody current algebras of D=2 massless gauge theories, their representations and applications

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(87)90081-9MaRDI QIDQ1090751zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. S. Craigie, Werner Nahm, K. S. Narain

Publication date 1987

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(87)90081-9

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsnonlinear sigma modelcollective modesfractional solitonsKac-Moody current algebrasmassless fermion-gauge theoriesmonopole-fermion systemsrepresentation of local fermion fieldssimply laced Kac-Moody algebras with minimal central charge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Applications of quantum theory to specific physical systems (81V99)

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• Current algebra, a U(1) gauge theory and the Wess–Zumino–Witten model
• Two-dimensional RCFT's without Kac-Moody symmetry
• \(\mathcal W_k\) structure of \(\widehat{\text{SU}}(2)\)-level \(k\) from covariant construction of Kac-Moody algebras
• Analytic vectors, anomalies and star representations
• Representations of the SL(2,C) Kac–Moody current algebra in the Fock space
• Stationary phase approximation and quantum soliton families
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