scholarly journals Affine.m—Mathematica package for computations in representation theory of finite-dimensional and affine Lie algebras

2012 ◽  
Vol 183 (11) ◽  
pp. 2480-2493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Nazarov

A few years ago the 'hidden symmetries’ of the soliton equations had been identified as affine Lie groups, also known as loop groups. The first extensive use of the representation theory of affine Lie algebras for the soliton equations have been developed in a series of works by mathematicians of the Kyoto school. We will review some of their results and develop them further on the basis of the representation theory. Thus an orbit of the simplest affine Lie group SL(2, C)^ in the fundamental representation V will provide the solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, and similarly the solutions of the sine-Gordon equation will come from an orbit of the group (SL(2, C) x SL(2, C)) ^ in V x V*.


10.37236/931 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. King ◽  
T. A. Welsh

Coloured generalised Young diagrams $T(w)$ are introduced that are in bijective correspondence with the elements $w$ of the Weyl-Coxeter group $W$ of $\mathfrak{g}$, where $\mathfrak{g}$ is any one of the classical affine Lie algebras $\mathfrak{g}=A^{(1)}_\ell$, $B^{(1)}_\ell$, $C^{(1)}_\ell$, $D^{(1)}_\ell$, $A^{(2)}_{2\ell}$, $A^{(2)}_{2\ell-1}$ or $D^{(2)}_{\ell+1}$. These diagrams are coloured by means of periodic coloured grids, one for each $\mathfrak{g}$, which enable $T(w)$ to be constructed from any expression $w=s_{i_1}s_{i_2}\cdots s_{i_t}$ in terms of generators $s_k$ of $W$, and any (reduced) expression for $w$ to be obtained from $T(w)$. The diagram $T(w)$ is especially useful because $w(\Lambda)-\Lambda$ may be readily obtained from $T(w)$ for all $\Lambda$ in the weight space of $\mathfrak{g}$. With $\overline{\mathfrak{g}}$ a certain maximal finite dimensional simple Lie subalgebra of $\mathfrak{g}$, we examine the set $W_s$ of minimal right coset representatives of $\overline{W}$ in $W$, where $\overline{W}$ is the Weyl-Coxeter group of $\overline{\mathfrak{g}}$. For $w\in W_s$, we show that $T(w)$ has the shape of a partition (or a slight variation thereof) whose $r$-core takes a particularly simple form, where $r$ or $r/2$ is the dual Coxeter number of $\mathfrak{g}$. Indeed, it is shown that $W_s$ is in bijection with such partitions.


2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 672-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Eswara Rao ◽  
Punita Batra

AbstractWe study the representations of extended affine Lie algebras where q is N-th primitive root of unity (ℂq is the quantum torus in two variables). We first prove that ⊕ for a suitable number of copies is a quotient of . Thus any finite dimensional irreducible module for ⊕ lifts to a representation of . Conversely, we prove that any finite dimensional irreducible module for comes from above. We then construct modules for the extended affine Lie algebras which is integrable and has finite dimensional weight spaces.


Author(s):  
Amadou Keita

One of the most important classes of Lie algebras is sl_n, which are the n×n matrices with trace 0. The representation theory for sl_n has been an interesting research area for the past hundred years and in it, the simple finite-dimensional modules have become very important. They were classified and Gelfand and Tsetlin actually gave an explicit construction of a basis for every simple finite-dimensional module. This paper extends their work by providing theorems and proofs and constructs monomial bases of the simple module.


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 823-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN HWANG ◽  
HENRIC RHEDIN

Explicit expressions are presented for general branching functions for cosets of affine Lie algebras ĝ with respect to subalgebras ĝ′ for the cases where the corresponding finite-dimensional algebras g and g′ are such that g is simple and g′ is either simple or sums of u(1) terms. A special case of the latter yields the string functions. Our derivation is purely algebraical and has its origin in the results on the BRST cohomology presented by us earlier. We will here give an independent and simple proof of the validity of our results. The method presented here generalizes in a straightforward way to more complicated g and g′ such as sums of simple and u(1) terms.


Author(s):  
Runxuan Zhang

We study the representation theory of finite-dimensional [Formula: see text]-Lie algebras over the complex field. We derive an [Formula: see text]-Lie version of the classical Lie’s theorem, i.e., any finite-dimensional irreducible module of a soluble [Formula: see text]-Lie algebra is 1-dimensional (1D). We also prove that indecomposable modules of some 3D [Formula: see text]-Lie algebras could be parametrized by the complex field and nilpotent matrices. We introduce the notion of a tailed derivation of a nonassociative algebra [Formula: see text] and prove that if [Formula: see text] is a Lie algebra, then there exists a one-to-one correspondence between tailed derivations of [Formula: see text] and 1D [Formula: see text]-extensions of [Formula: see text].


Author(s):  
Vyacheslav M. Futorny ◽  
Duncan J. Melville

AbstractWe show that a quantum Verma-type module for a quantum group associated to an affine Kac-Moody algebra is characterized by its subspace of finite-dimensional weight spaces. In order to do this we prove an explicit equivalence of categories between a certain category containing the quantum Verma modules and a category of modules for a subalgebra of the quantum group for which the finite part of the Verma module is itself a module.


2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (15) ◽  
pp. 971-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dražen AdamoviĆ

We study ideals generated by singular vectors in vertex operator algebras associated with representations of affine Lie algebras of typesAandC. We find new explicit formulas for singular vectors in these vertex operator algebras at integer and half-integer levels. These formulas generalize the expressions for singular vectors from Adamović (1994). As a consequence, we obtain a new family of vertex operator algebras for which we identify the associated Zhu's algebras. A connection with the representation theory of Weyl algebras is also discussed.


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