KAC-MOODY AND VIRASORO ALGEBRAS IN RELATION TO QUANTUM PHYSICS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X86000149zbMath0631.17012WikidataQ59410170 ScholiaQ59410170MaRDI QIDQ3767472

Publication date: 1986

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

bibliography; Kac-Moody algebras; representations; central extensions; highest weight; Virasoro algebras; review; superstrings; fermionic fields; quantum physics; application; Sugawara construction; vertex operator representations; Fermi fields; Neveu-Schwarz or Ramond type; quark model representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B67: Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras

17B68: Virasoro and related algebras

17B69: Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures

17B81: Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc.

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

81T99: Quantum field theory; related classical field theories

17-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to nonassociative rings and algebras

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