The Schr\"odinger-Virasoro Lie group and algebra: from geometry to representation theory

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Authors: Claude Roger, Jeremie Unterberger 

Publication date: 24 January 2006

Abstract: This article is concerned with an extensive study of an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra $mathfraksv$, introduced in the context of non-equilibrium statistical physics, containing as subalgebras both the Lie algebra of invariance of the free Schr"odinger equation and the central charge-free Virasoro algebra $Vect(S^1)$. We call $mathfraksv$ the Schr"odinger-Virasoro algebra. We choose to present $mathfraksv$ from a Newtonian geometry point of view first, and then in connection with conformal and Poisson geometry. We turn afterwards to its representation theory: realizations as Lie symmetries of field equations, coadjoint representation, coinduced representations in connection with Cartan's prolongation method (yielding analogues of the tensor density modules for $Vect(S^1)$), and finally Verma modules with a Kac determinant formula. We also present a detailed cohomological study, providing in particular a classification of deformations and central extensions; there appears a non-local cocycle.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Poisson algebras (17B63) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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