Highest-Weight Representation Theory

Author(s):  
Xiaoping Xu
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Bagchi ◽  
Poulami Nandi ◽  
Amartya Saha ◽  
Zodinmawia

Abstract Two dimensional field theories invariant under the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group are conjectured to be dual to asymptotically flat spacetimes in three dimensions. In this paper, we continue our investigations of the modular properties of these field theories. In particular, we focus on the BMS torus one-point function. We use two different methods to arrive at expressions for asymptotic structure constants for general states in the theory utilising modular properties of the torus one-point function. We then concentrate on the BMS highest weight representation, and derive a host of new results, the most important of which is the BMS torus block. In a particular limit of large weights, we derive the leading and sub-leading pieces of the BMS torus block, which we then use to rederive an expression for the asymptotic structure constants for BMS primaries. Finally, we perform a bulk computation of a probe scalar in the background of a flatspace cosmological solution based on the geodesic approximation to reproduce our field theoretic results.


1994 ◽  
Vol 09 (14) ◽  
pp. 1253-1265 ◽  
Author(s):  
HITOSHI KONNO

Using free field representation of quantum affine algebra [Formula: see text], we investigate the structure of the Fock modules over [Formula: see text]. The analysis is based on a q-analog of the BRST formalism given by Bernard and Felder in the affine Kac-Moody algebra [Formula: see text]. We give an explicit construction of the singular vectors using the BRST charge. By the same cohomology analysis as the classical case (q=1), we obtain the irreducible highest weight representation space as a non-trivial cohomology group. This enables us to calculate a trace of the q-vertex operators over this space.


Author(s):  
Peter Webb

AbstractWe describe structural properties of globally defined Mackey functors related to the stratification theory of algebras. We show that over a field of characteristic zero they form a highest weight category and we also determine precisely when this category is semisimple. This approach is used to show that the Cartan matrix is often symmetric and non-singular, and we are able to compute finite parts of it in some instances. We also develop a theory of vertices of globally defined Mackey functors in the spirit of group representation theory, as well as giving information about extensions between simple functors.


2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Webster

AbstractThis paper develops a general theory of canonical bases and how they arise naturally in the context of categorification. As an application, we show that Lusztig’s canonical basis in the whole quantized universal enveloping algebra is given by the classes of the indecomposable 1-morphisms in a categorification when the associated Lie algebra is of finite type and simply laced. We also introduce natural categories whose Grothendieck groups correspond to the tensor products of lowest- and highest-weight integrable representations. This generalizes past work of the author’s in the highest-weight case.


2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 683-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAZUO HOSOMICHI ◽  
YUJI SATOH

In the conformal field theories having affine SL(2) symmetry, we study the operator product expansion (OPE) involving primary fields in highest weight representations. For this purpose, we analyze properties of primary fields with definite SL(2) weights, and calculate their two- and three-point functions. Using these correlators, we show that the correct OPE is obtained when one of the primary fields belongs to the degenerate highest weight representation. We briefly comment on the OPE in the SL (2,R) WZNW model.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (10) ◽  
pp. 2219-2244
Author(s):  
H.A. BOUGOURZI ◽  
Y. KIKUCHI

We describe the embedding structure of the Verma modules of the W3 algebra using the free field representation (FFR) in the lattice approach. This structure is expressed by a set of intertwining diagrams. In particular, we show how these diagrams can be used to achieve the Bernstein-Gel’fand-Gel’fand (BGG) resolution of the irreducible highest weight representation (IHWR) in terms of the Verma modules. As an application of prime importance, we show how the character of the W3 IHWR can be readily derived using the Rocha-Caridi procedure.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ammon ◽  
Seán Gray ◽  
Claire Moran ◽  
Michel Pannier ◽  
Katharina Wölfl

Abstract Flat-space holography requires a thorough understanding of BMS symmetry. We introduce an oscillator construction of the highest-weight representation of the $$ {\mathfrak{bms}}_3 $$ bms 3 algebra and show that it is consistent with known results concerning the $$ {\mathfrak{bms}}_3 $$ bms 3 module. We take advantage of this framework to prove that $$ {\mathfrak{bms}}_3 $$ bms 3 -blocks exponentiate in the semi-classical limit, where one of the central charges is large. Within this context, we compute perturbatively heavy, and heavy-light vacuum $$ {\mathfrak{bms}}_3 $$ bms 3 -blocks.


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 2589-2614 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. GERASIMOV ◽  
S. KHOROSHKIN ◽  
D. LEBEDEV ◽  
A. MIRONOV ◽  
A. MOROZOV

This paper begins investigation of the concept of a “generalized τ function,” defined as a generating function of all the matrix elements of a group element g∈G in a given highest weight representation of a universal enveloping algebra [Formula: see text]. In the generic situation, the time variables correspond to the elements of maximal nilpotent subalgebras rather than Cartanian elements. Moreover, in the case of quantum groups such τ “functions” are not c numbers but take their values in noncommutative algebras (of functions on the quantum group G). Despite all these differences from the particular case of conventional τ functions of integrable (KP and Toda lattice) hierarchies [which arise when G is a Kac-Moody (one-loop) algebra of level k=1], these generic τ functions also satisfy bilinear Hirota-like equations, which can be deduced from manipulations with intertwining operators. The most important applications of the formalism should be to k>1 Kac-Moody and multiloop algebras, but this paper contains only illustrative calculations for the simplest case of ordinary (zero-loop) algebra SL (2) and its quantum counterpart SL q(2), as well as for the system of fundamental representations of SL (n).


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