Inönü–Wigner contraction of Kac–Moody algebras

DOI10.1063/1.530155MaRDI QIDQ4201755zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Parthasarathi Majumdar

Publication date 6 September 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9207057

zbMATH Keywords

affine Kac-Moody algebrasInönü-Wigner contraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: We discuss In"on"u-Wigner contractions of affine Kac-Moody algebras. We show that the Sugawara construction for the contracted affine algebra exists only for a fixed value of the level $k$, which is determined in terms of the dimension of the uncontracted part of the starting Lie algebra, and the quadratic Casimir in the adjoint representation. Further, we discuss contractions of $G/H$ coset spaces, and obtain an affine {it translation} algebra, which yields a Virasoro algebra (via a GKO construction) with a central charge given by $dim(G/H)$.

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• Possible geometrical origin of the fermionic gauge symmetry in Green-Schwarz-Siegel superstrings
• String theory and black holes

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• On rigidity of 3d asymptotic symmetry algebras
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• Generalized Wigner-Inönü contractions and Maxwell (super)algebras

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