On the relevance of some constructions of highest weight modules over (super-) Kac-Moody algebras (In connection with a paper by Wakimoto)

DOI10.1007/BF01239016MaRDI QIDQ1103039zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. K. Dobrev

Publication date 1987

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01239016

zbMATH Keywords

highest weight modulesirreducibilityKac-Moody algebrasKac-Moody Lie (super)algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67)

Review text

In [Commun. Math. Phys. 104, 605--609 (1986; Zbl 0587.17009)] \textit{M. Wakimoto} constructed a family of highest weight modules \(V(\mu,\nu)\) over the affine Lie algebra \(A_1^{(1)}\) parametrized by (\(\mu,\nu)\in \mathbb{C}^2\). Using the Kac-Kazhdan criterion [Adv. Math. 34, 97--108 (1979; Zbl 0427.17011)] Wakimoto made a statement on the irreducibility of his modules, \(V(\mu,\nu) = L(\mu,\nu)\), which contains a mistake. The present author corrects the statement and further discusses the (ir)reducibility of the highest weight modules over a Kac-Moody Lie (super)algebra in a certain class.

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• A classification of the unitarizable highest weight modules for affine Lie superalgebras
• A classification of irreducible Wakimoto modules for the affine Lie algebra \(A_1^{(1)}\)
• New Weyl groups for \(A_ 1^{(1)}\) and characters of singular highest weight modules

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