An affine string vertex operator construction at an arbitrary level

DOI10.1063/1.532135zbMATH Open0901.17016arXivhep-th/9608014OpenAlexW3099166116MaRDI QIDQ4370751FDOQ4370751

Reinhold W. Gebert, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date: 2 December 1998

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

Abstract: An affine vertex operator construction at arbitrary level is presented which is based on a completely compactified chiral bosonic string whose momentum lattice is taken to be the (Minkowskian) affine weight lattice. This construction is manifestly physical in the sense of string theory, i.e., the vertex operators are functions of DDF ``oscillators and the Lorentz generators, both of which commute with the Virasoro constraints. We therefore obtain explicit representations of affine highest weight modules in terms of physical (DDF) string states. This opens new perspectives on the representation theory of affine Kac-Moody algebras, especially in view of the simultaneous treatment of infinitely many affine highest weight representations of arbitrary level within a single state space as required for the study of hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras. A novel interpretation of the affine Weyl group as the ``dimensional null reduction of the corresponding hyperbolic Weyl group is given, which follows upon re-expression of the affine Weyl translations as Lorentz boosts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9608014

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zbMATH Keywords

affine Kac-Moody algebrasstring theoryaffine Weyl groupexplicit representationsLorentz boostsaffine highest weight modulesaffine vertex operator constructionaffine weight latticechiral bosonic string

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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