Global vertex operators on Riemann surfaces
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Global vertex operators on Riemann surfaces
zbMATH Open document ID: 0819.17019
DOI: 10.1007/BF02099421
published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 1995-08-31T00:00:00Z
review text: The author introduces a possible notion of global vertex operators and associated spaces of vacua on higher genus Riemann surfaces with ``punctures''. First he recalls the (classical) definition of vertex operator algebras and their representations. In the following his basic set-up is the data \(\widetilde {\Sigma}\) consisting of a Riemann surface, \(N\) points on this surface and local coordinates at these points. To every marked point a representation of a fixed vertex operator algebra \(V\) is assigned. Now it is possible to assign to every marked point for every primary field \(a\) of degree \(n\) and every meromorphic \((-n+1)\)-differential \(f\), which is holomorphic outside the marked points, a local vertex operator of the corresponding representation at this point. This is possible via the local coordinates there. The author calls the sum over the residues of all these local operators a global vertex operator \(a(f, \widetilde {\Sigma})\). The vertex operator depends in a well defined manner on the local coordinates chosen. A similar assignment is possible for the special homogeneous element of degree 2 in the vertex operator algebra which is used to define the associated Virasoro algebra. For this and some of the following results it is necessary to choose a projective structure on the Riemann surface with punctures (i.e. a special system of local coordinates). The space of vacua is defined to be the subspace of the dual of the tensor products of the involved local representations which is annihilated by all global vertex operators assigned to the primary fields and to \(\omega\). The author introduces the notion of quasi-global vertex operators which correspond to quasi-primary fields. This set contains the set of global vertex operators and is close to a Lie algebra. It is shown that under certain conditions on the vertex operator algebra the vacuum still is annihilated by them. The space of vacua is unchanged when a new point together with the vertex …
reviewed by: M. Schlichenmaier
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 17B69
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 17B66
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 17B67
zbMATH DE Number: 694966
zbMATH Keywords: global vertex operators
zbMATH Keywords: spaces of vacua
zbMATH Keywords: higher genus Riemann surfaces
author: Yongchang Zhu
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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