MATHEMATICA™ PACKAGES FOR COMPUTING PRINCIPAL DECOMPOSITIONS OF SIMPLE LIE ALGEBRAS AND APPLICATIONS IN EXTENDED CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIELA GĂRĂJEU ◽  
MIHAIL GĂRĂJEU
Keyword(s):  
Lie Algebra ◽  
Lie Algebras ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Adjoint Representation ◽  
Cartan Matrix ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Killing Form ◽  
Simple Lie Algebras ◽  
Conformal Field

In this article, we propose two Mathematica™ packages for doing calculations in the domain of classical simple Lie algebras. The main goal of the first package, [Formula: see text], is to determine the principal three-dimensional subalgebra of a simple Lie algebra. The package provides several functions which give some elements related to simple Lie algebras (generators in fundamental and adjoint representation, roots, Killing form, Cartan matrix, etc.). The second package, [Formula: see text], concerns the principal decomposition of a Lie algebra with respect to the principal three-dimensional embedding. These packages have important applications in extended two-dimensional conformal field theories. As an example, we present an application in the context of the theory of W-gravity.

scholarly journals PURELY AFFINE ELEMENTARY su(N) FUSIONS

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 1249-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
JØRGEN RASMUSSEN ◽  
MARK A. WALTON
Keyword(s):  
Linear Combination ◽  
Lie Algebras ◽  
Tensor Products ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Simple Lie Algebras ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Highest Weight ◽  
Highest Weight Representations

We consider three-point couplings in simple Lie algebras — singlets in triple tensor products of their integrable highest weight representations. A coupling can be expressed as a linear combination of products of finitely many elementary couplings. This carries over to affine fusion, the fusion of Wess–Zumino–Witten conformal field theories, where the expressions are in terms of elementary fusions. In the case of su(4) it has been observed that there is a purely affine elementary fusion, i.e. an elementary fusion that is not an elementary coupling. In this paper we show by construction that there is at least one purely affine elementary fusion associated to every su (N > 3).

Euclidean Lie Algebras

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1432-1454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert V. Moody
Keyword(s):  
Lie Algebra ◽  
Lie Algebras ◽  
Characteristic Zero ◽  
Cartan Matrix ◽  
Simple Lie Algebras ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
Generalized Cartan Matrix

Our aim in this paper is to study a certain class of Lie algebras which arose naturally in (4). In (4), we showed that beginning with an indecomposable symmetrizable generalized Cartan matrix (A ij) and a field Φ of characteristic zero, we could construct a Lie algebra E((A ij)) over Φ patterned on the finite-dimensional split simple Lie algebras. We were able to show that E((A ij)) is simple providing that (A ij) does not fall in the list given in (4, Table). We did not prove the converse, however.The diagrams of the table of (4) appear in Table 2. Call the matrices that they represent Euclidean matrices and their corresponding algebras Euclidean Lie algebras. Our first objective is to show that Euclidean Lie algebras are not simple.

CONFORMAL THEORIES, CURVED PHASE SPACES, RELATIVISTIC WAVELETS AND THE GEOMETRY OF COMPLEX DOMAINS

1990 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. COQUEREAUX ◽  
A. JADCZYK
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Complex Geometry ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Relativistic Phase

We investigate some aspects of complex geometry in relation with possible applications to quantization, relativistic phase spaces, conformal field theories, general relativity and the music of two and three-dimensional spheres.

scholarly journals Bootstrap experiments on higher dimensional CFTs

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (07) ◽  
pp. 1850036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Adjoint Representation ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Unitarity Bound ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Dimension Formula ◽  
Conformal Bootstrap ◽  
Higher Dimensional

Recent programs on conformal bootstrap suggest an empirical relationship between the existence of nontrivial conformal field theories and nontrivial features such as a kink in the unitarity bound of conformal dimensions in the conformal bootstrap equations. We report the existence of nontrivial kink-like behaviors in the unitarity bound of scalar operators in the adjoint representation of the [Formula: see text] symmetric conformal field theories. They have interesting properties: (1) the kink-like behaviors exist in [Formula: see text] dimensions; (2) the location of kink-like behaviors are when the unitarity bound hits the space–time dimension [Formula: see text]; (3) there exists a “conformal window” of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text].

On Derivations of Lie Algebras

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Berman
Keyword(s):  
Lie Algebra ◽  
Lie Algebras ◽  
Bilinear Form ◽  
Characteristic Zero ◽  
Killing Form ◽  
Simple Lie Algebras ◽  
Infinite Dimensional ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
Finite Dimensional Case ◽  
Cartan Matrices

A well known result in the theory of Lie algebras, due to H. Zassenhaus, states that if is a finite dimensional Lie algebra over the field K such that the killing form of is non-degenerate, then the derivations of are all inner, [3, p. 74]. In particular, this applies to the finite dimensional split simple Lie algebras over fields of characteristic zero. In this paper we extend this result to a class of Lie algebras which generalize the split simple Lie algebras, and which are defined by Cartan matrices (for a definition see § 1). Because of the fact that the algebras we consider are usually infinite dimensional, the method we employ in our investigation is quite different from the standard one used in the finite dimensional case, and makes no reference to any associative bilinear form on the algebras.

scholarly journals GENERALIZED ABELIAN CHERN-SIMONS THEORIES AND THEIR CONNECTION TO CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (19) ◽  
pp. 4477-4486 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO A.C. KNEIPP
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Magnetic Monopoles ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Vertex Operators ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Integral Lattice ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Free Scalar ◽  
Chern Simons

We discuss the generalization of Abelian Chern-Simons theories when θ-angles and magnetic monopoles are included. We map these three dimensional theories into sectors of two-dimensional conformal field theories. The introduction of θ-angles allows us to establish in a consistent fashion a connection between Abelian Chern-Simons and 2-d free scalar field compactified on a noneven integral lattice. The Abelian Chern-Simons with magnetic monopoles is related to a conformal field theory in which the sum of the charges of the chiral vertex operators inside a correlator is different from zero.

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