On the structure of symmetric self-dual Lie algebras

DOI10.1063/1.531620zbMATH Open0863.17004arXivhep-th/9506152OpenAlexW3105805960MaRDI QIDQ5284847FDOQ5284847

Authors: José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Sonia Stanciu 

Publication date: 10 June 1997

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

Abstract: A finite-dimensional Lie algebra is called (symmetric) self-dual, if it possesses an invariant nondegenerate (symmetric) bilinear form. Symmetric self-dual Lie algebras have been studied by Medina and Revoy, who have proven a very useful theorem about their structure. In this paper we prove a refinement of their theorem which has wide applicability in Conformal Field Theory, where symmetric self-dual Lie algebras start to play an important role due to the fact that they are precisely the Lie algebras which admit a Sugawara construction. We also prove a few corollaries which are important in Conformal Field Theory. (This paper provides mathematical details of results used, but only sketched, in the companion paper hep-th/9506151.)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506152

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryinvariant metricSugawara constructiondouble extensionsplitting of exact sequencesnon-reductive self-dual Lie algebrassymmetric self-dual Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Structure theory for Lie algebras and superalgebras (17B05)

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