Twisted characters and holomorphic symmetries

DOI10.1007/s11005-020-01319-4zbMath1468.81114arXiv1906.04221OpenAlexW3105528874MaRDI QIDQ2224494

Brian R. Williams, Ingmar A. Saberi

Publication date: 3 February 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04221

zbMATH Keywords

special functionssupersymmetryinfinite-dimensional Lie algebrassupersymmetric indexholomorphic quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Questions of holomorphy and infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B12)

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