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Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras
 
Michael David Weiner Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-0233-4
Product Code:  MEMO/135/644.E
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Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras
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Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras
Michael David Weiner Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-0233-4
Product Code:  MEMO/135/644.E
List Price: $49.00
MAA Member Price: $44.10
AMS Member Price: $29.40
  • Book Details
     
     
    Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
    Volume: 1351998; 106 pp
    MSC: Primary 17; Secondary 81

    Inspired by mathematical structures found by theoretical physicists and by the desire to understand the "monstrous moonshine" of the Monster group, Borcherds, Frenkel, Lepowsky, and Meurman introduced the definition of vertex operator algebra (VOA). An important part of the theory of VOAs concerns their modules and intertwining operators between modules. Feingold, Frenkel, and Ries defined a structure, called a vertex operator para-algebra (VOPA), where a VOA, its modules and their intertwining operators are unified.

    In this work, for each \(n \geq 1\), the author uses the bosonic construction (from a Weyl algebra) of four level \(- 1/2\) irreducible representations of the symplectic affine Kac-Moody Lie algebra \(C_n^{(1)}\). They define intertwining operators so that the direct sum of the four modules forms a VOPA. This work includes the bosonic analog of the fermionic construction of a vertex operator superalgebra from the four level 1 irreducible modules of type \(D_n^{(1)}\) given by Feingold, Frenkel, and Ries. While they get only a VOPA when \(n = 4\) using classical triality, the techniques in this work apply to any \(n \geq 1\).

    Readership

    Graduate students, research mathematicians, and physicists working in representation theory and conformal field theory.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Bosonic construction of symplectic affine Kac-Moody algebras
    • 3. Bosonic construction of symplectic vertex operator algebras and modules
    • 4. Bosonic construction of vertex operator para-algebras
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Volume: 1351998; 106 pp
MSC: Primary 17; Secondary 81

Inspired by mathematical structures found by theoretical physicists and by the desire to understand the "monstrous moonshine" of the Monster group, Borcherds, Frenkel, Lepowsky, and Meurman introduced the definition of vertex operator algebra (VOA). An important part of the theory of VOAs concerns their modules and intertwining operators between modules. Feingold, Frenkel, and Ries defined a structure, called a vertex operator para-algebra (VOPA), where a VOA, its modules and their intertwining operators are unified.

In this work, for each \(n \geq 1\), the author uses the bosonic construction (from a Weyl algebra) of four level \(- 1/2\) irreducible representations of the symplectic affine Kac-Moody Lie algebra \(C_n^{(1)}\). They define intertwining operators so that the direct sum of the four modules forms a VOPA. This work includes the bosonic analog of the fermionic construction of a vertex operator superalgebra from the four level 1 irreducible modules of type \(D_n^{(1)}\) given by Feingold, Frenkel, and Ries. While they get only a VOPA when \(n = 4\) using classical triality, the techniques in this work apply to any \(n \geq 1\).

Readership

Graduate students, research mathematicians, and physicists working in representation theory and conformal field theory.

  • Chapters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bosonic construction of symplectic affine Kac-Moody algebras
  • 3. Bosonic construction of symplectic vertex operator algebras and modules
  • 4. Bosonic construction of vertex operator para-algebras
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