Positive energy representations of the conformal quantum algebra

DOI10.1016/0370-2693(93)90387-WzbMATH Open0941.17502arXivhep-th/9303115MaRDI QIDQ1964643FDOQ1964643

R. Floreanini, Viqar Husain, V. K. Dobrev, Ludwik Dąbrowski

Publication date: 14 March 2000

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

Abstract: The positive-energy unitary irreducible representations of the $q$-deformed conformal algebra ${calC}_q={calU}_q(su(2,2))$ are obtained by appropriate deformation of the classical ones. When the deformation parameter $q$ is $N$-th root of unity, all these unitary representations become finite-dimensional. For this case we discuss in some detail the massless representations, which are also irreducible representations of the $q$-deformed Poincar'e subalgebra of ${calC}_q$. Generically, their dimensions are smaller than the corresponding finite-dimensional non-unitary representation of $su(2,2)$, except when $N=2$, $h=0$ and $N=2verthvert+1$, where $h$ is the helicity of the representations. The latter cases include the fundamental representations with $h=pm1/2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9303115

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

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