Dynkin diagrams for hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/22/18/015zbMath0725.17029MaRDI QIDQ5203214

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/22/18/015

zbMATH Keywords

string theory; Kac-Moody algebra; hyperbolic Dynkin diagrams; Lorentzian algebras; Minkowskian metrics; strictly hyperbolic algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

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