On the imaginary simple roots of the Borcherds algebra g_II₉,1

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00583-XMaRDI QIDQ1569653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Bärwald, Reinhold W. Gebert, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date 3 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705144

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) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: In a recent paper (hep-th/9703084) it was conjectured that the imaginary simple roots of the Borcherds algebra $g_{I{I}_{9,1}}$ at level 1 are its only ones. We here propose an independent test of this conjecture, establishing its validity for all roots of norm $geq-8$. However, the conjecture fails for roots of norm -10 and beyond, as we show by computing the simple multiplicities down to norm -24, which turn out to be remakably small in comparison with the corresponding $E_{10}$ multiplicities. Our derivation is based on a modified denominator formula combining the denominator formulas for $E_{10}$ and $g_{I{I}_{9,1}}$, and provides an efficient method for determining the imaginary simple roots. In addition, we compute the $E_{10}$ multiplicities of all roots up to height 231, including levels up to $ell=6$ and norms -42.

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