Representing functionally the two-dimensional conformal group

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(87)90015-7MaRDI QIDQ580521zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Floreanini

Publication date 1987

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(87)90015-7

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformationsinfinite-dimensional Lie groupProjective respresentationspropagation kernelstwo- dimensional conformal group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Review text

Projective respresentations of the two-dimensional conformal group are explicitly constructed in terms of propagation kernels. The representation functionals are then used to study the effect of conformal transformations on the states of a free massless scalar field theory.

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