Characteristic identities for Kac-Moody algebras

DOI10.1007/BF00405172zbMath0747.17025OpenAlexW2011544258MaRDI QIDQ1177122

Peter D. Jarvis, Mark D. Gould

Publication date: 26 June 1992

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00405172

zbMATH Keywords

projection operatorsgeneratorsCharacteristic identitieshighest-weight unitary representationsimple affine Kac-Moody algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67)

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• Casimir invariants and characteristic identities for generators of the general linear, special linear and orthosymplectic graded Lie algebras
• On an infinitesimal approach to semisimple Lie groups and raising and lowering operators of O(n) and U(n)