An affine string vertex operator construction at an arbitrary level

DOI10.1063/1.532135zbMath0901.17016arXivhep-th/9608014OpenAlexW3099166116MaRDI QIDQ4370751

Reinhold W. Gebert, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date: 2 December 1998

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

string theoryaffine Weyl groupaffine Kac-Moody algebrasexplicit 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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