Current algebra functors and extensions

DOI10.1142/S0129055X13500128MaRDI QIDQ2853433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Alekseev, Pavol Ševera, Cornelia Vizman

Publication date 21 October 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0487

zbMATH Keywords

sigma modeldifferential graded Lie algebracurrent algebraLie algebra extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

Abstract: We show how the fundamental cocycles on current Lie algebras and the Lie algebra of symmetries for the sigma model are obtained via the current algebra functors. We present current group extensions integrating some of these current Lie algebra extensions.

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