Minimal Representations and Reductive Dual Pairs in Conformal Field Theory

DOI10.1063/1.3460160zbMATH Open1210.81113arXiv1006.1981OpenAlexW2097367056MaRDI QIDQ3079569FDOQ3079569

Authors: Ivan Todorov 

Publication date: 2 March 2011

Published in: AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A minimal representation of a simple non-compact Lie group is obtained by ``quantizing the minimal nilpotent coadjoint orbit of its Lie algebra. It provides context for Roger Howe's notion of a reductive dual pair encountered recently in the description of global gauge symmetry of a (4-dimensional) conformal observable algebra. We give a pedagogical introduction to these notions and point out that physicists have been using both minimal representations and dual pairs without naming them and hence stand a chance to understand their theory and to profit from it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1981

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal representationsinfinite dimensional Lie algebrasnilpotent coadjoint orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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