The group of local biholomorphisms of C^ 1 and conformal field theory in the operator formalism

DOI10.1007/BF01225509MaRDI QIDQ1120690zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert J. Budzyński, Paweł Sadowski, Slawomir Klimek

Publication date 1989

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01225509

zbMATH Keywords

formal exponential mapgroup of germs of holomorphic diffeomorphismsgroups of diffeomorphismshighest weight representationsLie algebrauniversal covering groupVirasoro algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Review text

Let G be the group of germs of holomorphic diffeomorphisms of \({\mathbb{C}}\) in a neighbourhood of the origin, and let \({\mathfrak g}\) be its Lie algebra. The authors study properties of G and its representations. There is a formal exponential map exp: \({\mathfrak g}\to G\), but this is neither locally injective nor surjective, as is usual for groups of diffeomorphisms. However, it is shown that every element of G is a product \(\exp (u_ 1)\exp (u_ 2)\), for some \(v_ 1,v_ 2\in {\mathfrak g}\). The Lie algebra \({\mathfrak g}\) is a subalgebra of the Virasoro algebra Vir, and one can restrict the highest weight representations of Vir to \({\mathfrak g}\). It is shown that these lift to an action of the universal covering group of G (by unbounded operators).

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