Modules with highest weight for affine Lie algebras on Riemann surfaces

DOI10.1007/BF01077040MaRDI QIDQ1907472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. K. Sheinman

Publication date 25 February 1996

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01077040

zbMATH Keywords

affine algebrasalmost graded algebrasBloch weightscentral extensionshighest weight representationsKac-Moody algebrasKrichever-Novikov algebrasWeyl-Kac character formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30)

Review text

In the global approach to Conformal Field Theory on higher genus Riemann surfaces initiated by Krichever and Novikov one replaces the Virasoro algebra and the related algebras by the corresponding algebras which are given by meromorphic objects with poles only at two points (see the review Zbl 0820.17036 for more background information). Starting from any simple Lie algebra \({\mathfrak g}\) (with associated group \(G)\) the generalized affine Lie algebra \(\widehat {\mathfrak g}\) was introduced by the author [Funct. Anal. Appl. 27, 266-272 (1993; Zbl 0820.17036)]. In the article under review the author defines and studies highest weight representations of these affine type Lie algebras. To study them he introduces the notion of Bloch weights which are analogs of the Bloch spectrum in the theory of completely integrable systems. An analog of the Weyl-Kac character formula is proven.

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