On the continuous series for sl(2, R)

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1832-9MaRDI QIDQ2439697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton M. Zeitlin, Igor B. Frenkel

Publication date 17 March 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2135

zbMATH Keywords

affine Lie algebrascontinuous series representationsGaussian integration on Hilbert spacesunitary representations

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) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: We construct the representations of affine sl(2,R) starting from the unitary representations of the loop ax+b-group. Our approach involves a combinatorial analysis of the correlation functions of the generators and renormalization of the appearing divergencies. We view our construction as a step towards a realization of the principal series representations of affine sl(2,R).

Review text

The authors introduce certain representations of the untwisted affine Lie algebra \(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R)}\), which they call the \textit{continuous series} representations. Their construction of these \(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R)}\)-modules is in some sense an affinization of a special realization of the principal series representations of the Lie algebra \(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R)}\) on dense subspaces of the compact and non-compact picture. More precisely, in the case of \(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R)}\), there exist two \(\ast\)-algebras \(\mathcal A\) and \(\mathcal K\) which preserve a dense subspace of the Hilbert space of the representation (which, by hindsight, is the space of square integrable functions on the real line or the circle), and one can obtain an embedding of the Lie algebra \(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R)}\) in \(\mathcal A\) and \(\mathcal K\). A similar technique is used in the affine case, where the algebras \(\mathcal A\) and \(\mathcal K\) are replaced by suitable algebras \(\widehat{\mathcal A}\) and \(\widehat{\mathcal K}\). It is known that the braided tensor category of finite dimensional representations of the quantum group \(U_q(\mathfrak{su}(2))\) is equivalent to the category of dominant highest weight modules of \(\widehat{\mathfrak{su}(2)}\). The authors suggest that there might exist a similar connection between the modules that they construct and certain categories of \(U_q(\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R))\)-modules.

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