Beyond the Frenkel-Kac-Segal construction of affine Lie algebras

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00334-4MaRDI QIDQ6205130zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Reinhold W. Gebert

Publication date 10 June 1997

Published in Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612179

zbMATH Keywords

affine Weyl translationsDDF operatorsLorentz generatorsMinkowskian torusstring modelSugawara operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: This contribution reviews recent progress in constructing affine Lie algebras at arbitrary level in terms of vertex operators. The string model describes a completely compactified subcritical chiral bosonic string whose momentum lattice is taken to be the (Lorentzian) affine weight lattice. The main feature of the new realization is the replacement of the ordinary string oscillators by physical DDF operators, whereas the unphysical position operators are substituted by certain linear combinations of the Lorentz generators. As a side result we obtain simple expressions for the affine Weyl translations as Lorentz boosts. Various applications of the construction are discussed.

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