Hilbert space cocycles as representations of (3+1)-D current algebras

DOI10.1007/BF00750302MaRDI QIDQ2368136zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jouko Mickelsson

Publication date 6 January 1994

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210069

zbMATH Keywords

compact Lie groupFock spacecocyclesunitary operatorscurrent algebrasgroup extensionsgauge theorieschiral fermionsnormal representationsgroup of smooth maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B25)

Abstract: It is proposed that instead of normal representations one should look at cocycles of group extensions valued in certain groups of unitary operators acting in a Hilbert space (e.g the Fock space of chiral fermions), when dealing with groups associated to current algebras in gauge theories in $3+1$ space-time dimensions. The appropriate cocycle is evaluated in the case of the group of smooth maps from the physical three-space to a compact Lie group. The cocyclic representation of a component $X$ of the current is obtained through two regularizations, 1) a conjugation by a background potential dependent unitary operator $h_A,$ 2) by a subtraction $-h_A^{-1}Cal{L}_X{h}_A,$ where $Cal{L}_X$ is a derivative along a gauge orbit. It is only the total operator $h_A^{-1}X{h}_A-h_A^{-1}Cal{L}_X{h}_A$ which is quantizable in the Fock space using the usual normal ordering subtraction.

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