KAC-MOODY AND VIRASORO ALGEBRAS IN RELATION TO QUANTUM PHYSICS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X86000149zbMath0631.17012OpenAlexW2146042918WikidataQ59410170 ScholiaQ59410170MaRDI QIDQ3767472

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x86000149

zbMATH Keywords

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

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) 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; related classical field theories (81T99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to nonassociative rings and algebras (17-02)

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