Kac-Moody group representations and generalization of the Sugawara construction of the Virasoro algebra

DOI10.1007/BF00402018zbMath0657.17014MaRDI QIDQ1110644

Victor Aldaya, Jose Navarro-Salas

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

highest weight representations; central extensions; polarizations; strings; Virasoro algebra; commutation relations; subalgebras; affine Kac-Moody algebra; group laws; Sugawara construction; perturbative technique; infinite- dimensional Lie group; vacuum symmetry; wave functions of representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B10: Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights)

17B67: Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras

81T99: Quantum field theory; related classical field theories

22E65: Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties

17B15: Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, analytic theory

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