Some remarks on the extension of loop groups

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/21/2/013zbMath0636.22014OpenAlexW2003012784MaRDI QIDQ3775732

Bo-Yu Hou, Yao-Zhong Zhang

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/21/2/013

zbMATH Keywords

central extensionsloop groupcocyclescurrent algebraKac-Moody algebracompact Lie groupnon-Abelian gauge theorydescent equationsChern-Pontryagin density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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