affine Lie algebra is an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra that is constructed in a canonical fashion out of a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra....
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answer is that one gets sums of finite-dimensional and affine Lie algebras. The monster Lie algebra satisfies a slightly weaker version of the conditions...
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Wess–Zumino–Witten model (category Lie groups)
associated to a Lie group (or supergroup), and its symmetry algebra is the affine Lie algebra built from the corresponding Lie algebra (or Lie superalgebra)...
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Affine algebra may refer to: Affine Lie algebra, a type of Kac–Moody algebras The Lie algebra of the affine group Finitely-generated algebra Affine Hecke...
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Note that every complex Lie algebra can also be viewed as a real Lie algebra of twice the dimension. The Lie algebra of affine transformations of dimension...
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quantum affine algebra (or affine quantum group) is a Hopf algebra that is a q-deformation of the universal enveloping algebra of an affine Lie algebra. They...
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In mathematics, loop algebras are certain types of Lie algebras, of particular interest in theoretical physics. For a Lie algebra g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak...
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the vertex operator algebra. Affine Lie algebra Chiral model Jordan map Virasoro algebra Vertex operator algebra Kac–Moody algebra Goldin 2006 Kac, Victor...
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Lie algebra g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} is solvable if its derived series terminates in the zero subalgebra. The derived Lie algebra of the Lie...
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analogues in the Kac–Moody setting. A class of Kac–Moody algebras called affine Lie algebras is of particular importance in mathematics and theoretical...
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(P, η) defines the structure of an affine geometry on M, making it into an affine manifold. The affine Lie algebra aff(n) splits as a semidirect product...
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The W(2) algebra coincides with the Virasoro algebra. The W(N) algebra is obtained by Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction of the affine Lie algebra s l ^ N {\displaystyle...
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mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced /liː/ LEE) is a vector space g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} together with an operation called the Lie bracket, an...
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Cartan matrix (redirect from Affine Cartan matrix)
E_{8},F_{4},G_{2}} ), while affine type indecomposable matrices classify the affine Lie algebras (say over some algebraically closed field of characteristic...
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In algebra, a simple Lie algebra is a Lie algebra that is non-abelian and contains no nonzero proper ideals. The classification of real simple Lie algebras...
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General linear group (redirect from General linear Lie algebra)
positive determinant. This is also a Lie group of dimension n 2 {\displaystyle n^{2}} ; it has the same Lie algebra as GL ( n , R ) {\displaystyle \operatorname...
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Special unitary group (redirect from Special unitary Lie algebra)
This (real) Lie algebra has dimension n2 − 1. More information about the structure of this Lie algebra can be found below in § Lie algebra structure. In...
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Dynkin diagram (redirect from Affine Dynkin diagram)
Dynkin diagrams arise in the classification of semisimple Lie algebras over algebraically closed fields, in the classification of Weyl groups and other...
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formula Casimir invariant Killing form Kac–Moody algebra Affine Lie algebra Loop algebra Graded Lie algebra One-parameter group, One-parameter subgroup Matrix...
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the Heisenberg Lie algebra with an untwisted affine Kac–Moody Lie algebra (i.e., the universal central extension of the loop algebra on a finite-dimensional...
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In mathematics, the special linear Lie algebra of order n {\displaystyle n} over a field F {\displaystyle F} , denoted s l n F {\displaystyle {\mathfrak...
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being the use of the corresponding 'infinitesimal' representations of Lie algebras. A complex representation of a group is an action by a group on a finite-dimensional...
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In algebraic geometry, an affine variety or affine algebraic variety is a certain kind of algebraic variety that can be described as a subset of an affine...
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A, the affine group Aff(A). Similarly, an affine representation of a Lie algebra g on A is a Lie algebra homomorphism from g to the Lie algebra aff(A)...
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Representation theory (category Algebraic structures)
way as representations of semisimple Lie algebras. Affine Lie algebras are a special case of Kac–Moody algebras, which have particular importance in mathematics...
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used to read off the list of simple Lie algebras and Riemannian symmetric spaces. Together with the commutative Lie group of the real numbers, R {\displaystyle...
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the field of real and complex numbers. A real Lie algebra g0 is called a real form of a complex Lie algebra g if g is the complexification of g0: g ≃ g...
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matrix Lie algebra, there is a linear group (matrix Lie group) with this algebra as its Lie algebra. On the other hand, Lie groups with isomorphic Lie algebras...
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ring). *-algebra Affine Lie algebra Akivis algebra Algebra for a monad Albert algebra Alternative algebra AW*-algebra Azumaya algebra Banach algebra Birman–Wenzl...
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In the theory of Lie groups, the exponential map is a map from the Lie algebra g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} of a Lie group G {\displaystyle G} to...
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