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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788561803321

Autore

Schlichenmaier Martin <1952->

Titolo

Krichever-Novikov type algebras : theory and applications / / Martin Schlichenmaier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-11-038147-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter studies in mathematics ; ; volume 53

Classificazione

SK 340

Disciplina

512/.482

Soggetti

Infinite dimensional Lie algebras

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-356).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Some background on Lie algebras -- 2. The higher genus algebras -- 3. The almost-grading -- 4. Fixing the basis elements -- 5. Explicit expressions for a system of generators -- 6. Central extensions of Krichever-Novikov type algebras -- 7. Semi-infinite wedge forms and fermionic Fock space representations -- 8. b − c systems -- 9. Affine algebras -- 10. The Sugawara construction -- 11. Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten models and Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov connection -- 12. Degenerations and deformations -- 13. Lax operator algebras -- 14. Some related developments -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Krichever and Novikov introduced certain classes of infinite dimensional Lie algebras to extend the Virasoro algebra and its related algebras to Riemann surfaces of higher genus. The author of this book generalized and extended them to a more general setting needed by the applications. Examples of applications are Conformal Field Theory, Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten models, moduli space problems, integrable systems, Lax operator algebras, and deformation theory of Lie algebra. Furthermore they constitute an important class of infinite dimensional Lie algebras which due to their geometric