Fractional Virasoro algebras

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2019.V23.N6.A5MaRDI QIDQ2667231zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gabriele La Nave, Philip Phillips

Publication date 24 November 2021

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05065

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We show that it is possible to construct a Virasoro algebra as a central extension of the fractional Witt algebra generated by non-local operators of the form, $L_n^{a}equivleft(fracpartialfpartialzight{)}^a$ where $ainmathbbR$. The Virasoro algebra is explicitly of the form, �eq [L^a_m,L_n^a]=A_{m,n}L^a_{m+n}+delta_{m,n}h(n)cZ^a eeq where $c$ is the central charge (not necessarily a constant), $Z^a$ is in the center of the algebra and $h(n)$ obeys a recursion relation related to the coefficients $A_{m,n}$. In fact, we show that all central extensions which respect the special structure developed here which we term a multimodule Lie-Algebra, are of this form. This result provides a mathematical foundation for non-local conformal field theories, in particular recent proposals in condensed matter in which the current has an anomalous dimension.

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