Abstract
Let be the quaternion algebra. Let be a complex Lie algebra and let be the enveloping algebra of . The quaternification of is defined by the bracket for and the basis vectors X and Y of . Let be the ( non-commutative) algebra of -valued smooth mappings over and let . The Lie algebra structure on is induced naturally from that of . We introduce a 2-cocycle on by the aid of a tangential vector field on and have the corresponding central extension . As a subalgebra of we have the algebra of Laurent polynomial spinors spanned by a complete orthogonal system of eigen spinors of the tangential Dirac operator on . Then is a Lie subalgebra of . We have the central extension as a Lie-subalgebra of . Finally we have a Lie algebra which is obtained by adding to a derivation d which acts on by the Euler vector field . That is the -vector space endowed with the bracket When is a simple Lie algebra with its Cartan subalgebra we shall investigate the weight space decomposition of with respect to the subalgebra .
Keywords:
infinite dimensional lie algebras; current algebra; lie algebra extensions; quaternion analysis; 81R10; 17B65; 17B67; 22E67 MSC Classification:
81R10; 17B65; 17B67; 22E67
1. Introduction
The set of smooth mappings from a manifold to a Lie algebra has been a subject of investigation both from a purely mathematical standpoint and from quantum field theory. In quantum field theory they appear as a current algebra or an infinitesimal gauge transformation group. Loop algebras are the simplest example. Loop algebras and their representation theory have been fully worked out. A loop algebra valued in a simple Lie algebra or its complexification turned out to behave like a simple Lie algebra and the highly developed theory of finite dimensional Lie algebra was extended to such loop algebras. Loop algebras appear in the simplified model of quantum field theory where the space is one-dimensional and many important facts in the representation theory of loop algebra were first discovered by physicists. As is well known, A. Belavin et al. [1] constructed two-dimensional conformal field theory based on the irreducible representations of Virasoro algebra. It turned out that in many applications to field theory one must deal with certain extensions of the associated loop algebra rather than the loop algebra itself. The central extension of a loop algebra is called an affine Lie algebra and the highest weight theory of finite dimensional Lie algebra was extended to this case. [2,3,4,5] are good references to study these subjects.
In this paper we shall investigate a generalization of affine Lie algebras to the Lie algebra of mappings from three-sphere to a Lie algebra. As an affine Lie algebra is a central extension of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from to the complexification of a Lie algebra, so our objective is an extension of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from to the quaternification of a Lie algebra. As for the higher dimensional generalization of loop groups, J. Mickelsson introduced an abelian extension of current groups for [6]. It is related to the Chern-Simons function on the space of -connections and the associated current algebra has an abelian extension by the affine dual of the space of connections over [7]. In [4] it was shown that, for any smooth manifold M and a simple Lie algebra , there is a universal central extension of the Lie algebra . The kernel of the extension is given by the space of complex valued 1-forms modulo exact 1-forms; . It implies that any extension is a weighted linear combination of extensions obtained as a pull back of the universal extension of the loop algebra by a smooth loop . We are dealing with central extensions of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from to the quaternification of a Lie algebra. Now we shall give a brief explanation of each section.
Let be the quaternion numbers. In this paper we shall denote a quaternion by . This comes from the identification of with the matrix algebra
becomes an associative algebra and the Lie algebra structure is induced on it. The trace of is defined by . For we have .
Let be a complex Lie algebra. Let be the enveloping algebra. The quaternification of is defined as the vector space endowed with the bracket
for and the basis vectors X and Y of . It extends the Lie algebra structure to . The quaternions give also a half spinor representation of . That is, gives an irreducible complex representation of the Clifford algebra : , and Δ decomposes into irreducible representations of . Let be the trivial even ( respectively odd ) spinor bundle. A section of spinor bundle is called a spinor. The space of even half spinors is identified with the space . Now the space becomes a Lie algebra with respect to the bracket:
for the basis vectors X and Y of and . In the sequel we shall abbreviate the Lie bracket simply to . Such an abbreviation will be often adopted for other Lie algebras.
Recall that the central extension of a loop algebra is the Lie algebra given by the bracket
with the aid of the 2-cocycle , where is a non-degenerate invariant symmetric bilinear form on , [2]. We shall give an analogous 2-cocycle on . Let θ be the vector field on defined by
For , we put
Let be the bilinear form given by
c defines a 2-cocycle on the algebra . That is, satisfies the following equations:
and
We extend c to the 2-cocycle on by
where is the non-degenerate invariant symmetric bilinear form on extended to .
Let a be an indefinite element. The Lie algebra extension of by the 2-cocycle c is the -vector space endowed with the following bracket:
for the basis vectors X and Y of and .
In Section 2 we shall review the theory of spinor analysis after [8,9]. Let be the ( half spinor ) Dirac operator. Let be the polar decomposition on of the Dirac operator, where is the tangential Dirac operator on and is the Clifford multiplication of the unit normal derivative on . The eigenvalues of are given by , with multiplicity . We have an explicitly written formula for eigenspinors corresponding to the eigenvalue and respectively and they give rise to a complete orthogonal system in . A spinor ϕ on a domain is called a harmonic spinor on G if . Each is extended to a harmonic spinor on , while each is extended to a harmonic spinor on . Every harmonic spinor φ on has a Laurent series expansion by the basis :
If only finitely many coefficients are non-zero it is called a spinor of Laurent polynomial type. The algebra of spinors of Laurent polynomial type is denoted by . is a subalgebra of that is algebraically generated by , , and .
As a Lie subalgebra of , has the central extension by the 2-cocycle . That is, the -vector space endowed with the Lie bracket Equation (6) becomes an extension of with 1-dimensional center . Finally we shall construct the Lie algebra which is obtained by adding to a derivation d which acts on by the Euler vector field on . The Euler vector field is by definition . We have the following fundamental property of the cocycle .
Let . We endow with the bracket defined by
Then is an extension of the Lie algebra on which d acts as . In Section 4, when is a simple Lie algebra with its Cartan subalgebra , we shall investigate the weight space decomposition of with respect to the subalgebra , the latter is a commutative subalgebra and acts on diagonally. For this purpose we look at the representation of the adjoint action of on the enveloping algebra . Let be the root space decomposition of . Let be the set of simple roots and be the set of simple coroots. The Cartan matrix is given by . Fix a standard set of generators , , , so that , and . We see that the set of weights of the representation becomes
The weight space of is by definition
when . Then, given , we have
The weight space decomposition becomes
Now we proceed to the representation . The dual space of can be regarded naturally as a subspace of . So is seen to be a subset of . We define by putting , , and . Then the set of weights of the representation is
The weight space decomposition of is given by
Each weight space is given as follows
where
2. Quaternification of a Lie Algebra
2.1. Quaternion Algebra
The quaternions are formed from the real numbers by adjoining three symbols satisfying the identities:
A general quaternion is of the form with . By taking the complex numbers are contained in if we identify i as the usual complex number. Every quaternion x has a unique expression with . This identifies with as -vector spaces. The quaternion multiplication will be from the right where with :
The multiplication of a to from the left yields an endomorphism in : . If we look on it under the identification mentioned above we have the -linear map
This establishes the -linear isomorphism
where we defined
The complex matrices corresponding to are
These are the basis of the Lie algebra (2). Thus we have the identification of the following objects
The correspondence between the elements is given by
where .
becomes an associative algebra with the multiplication law defined by
which is the rewritten formula of Equation (14) and the right-hand side is the first row of the matrix multiplication
It implies the Lie bracket of two vectors in , that becomes
These expressions are very convenient to develop the analysis on , and give an interpretation on the quaternion analysis by the language of spinor analysis.
Proposition 1. Let . Then the trace of is given by
and we have, for ,
The center of the Lie algebra is , and Equation (19) says that is the trivial central extension of .
being a vector subspace of :
we have the action of on .
2.2. Lie Algebra Structure on
Let be a complex Lie algebra. Let be the enveloping algebra of . Let and define the following bracket on :
for the basis vectors X and Y of and .
By the quaternion number notation every element of may be written as with . Then the above definition is equivalent to
where is the complex conjugate of X.
Proposition 2. The bracket defines a Lie algebra structure on .
In fact the bracket defined in Equations (26) or (27) satisfies the antisymmetry equation and the Jacobi identity.
Definition 1. The Lie algebra is called the quaternification of the Lie algebra .
3. Analysis on
In this section we shall review the analysis of the Dirac operator on . The general references are [10,11], and we follow the calculations developed in [8,9,12].
3.1. Harmonic Polynomials
The Lie group SU(2) acts on both from the right and from the left. Let dR(g) and dL(g) denote respectively the right and the left infinitesimal actions of the Lie algebra . We define the following vector fields on :
where is the normal basis of , Equation (18) . Each of the triple , , and , , gives a basis of the vector fields on the three sphere .
It is more convenient to introduce the following vector fields:
We have the commutation relations;
Both Lie algebras spanned by and are isomorphic to .
In the following we denote a function of variables simply by . For , and , we define the polynomials:
Then and are harmonic polynomials on ;
where .
forms a -complete orthonormal basis of the space of harmonic polynomials, as well as .
Proposition 3.
Therefore the space of harmonic polynomials on is decomposed by the right action of SU(2) into . Each gives an (m + 1) dimensional irreducible representation of with the highest weight , [13].
We have the following relations.
3.2. Harmonic Spinors
gives an irreducible complex representation of the Clifford algebra :
Δ decomposes into irreducible representations of . Let be the trivial spinor bundle on . The corresponding bundle ( resp. ) is called the even ( resp. odd ) spinor bundle and the sections are called even ( resp. odd ) spinors. The set of even spinors or odd spinors on a set is nothing but the smooth functions on M valued in :
The Dirac operator is defined by
where is the exterior differential and is the bundle homomorphism coming from the Clifford multiplication. By means of the decomposition the Dirac operator has the chiral decomposition:
We find that D and have the following coordinate expressions;
An even (resp. odd) spinor φ is called a harmonic spinor if ( resp. ).
We shall introduce a set of harmonic spinors which, restricted to , forms a complete orthonormal basis of .
Let ν and μ be vector fields on defined by
Then the radial vector field is defined by
We shall denote by γ the Clifford multiplication of the radial vector , Equation (48). γ changes the chirality:
The matrix expression of γ becomes as follows:
In the sequel we shall write (resp. ) for (resp. ).
Proposition 4. The Dirac operators D and have the following polar decompositions:
where the tangential (nonchiral) Dirac operator is given by
Proof. In the matrix expression Equation (46) of D and , we have etc., and we have the desired formulas. ☐
The tangential Dirac operator on the sphere ;
is a self adjoint elliptic differential operator.
We put, for and ,
is a harmonic spinor on and is a harmonic spinor on that is regular at infinity.
From Proposition 3 we have the following.
Proposition 5. On we have:
The eigenvalues of are
and the multiplicity of each eigenvalue is equal to .
The set of eigenspinors
forms a complete orthonormal system of .
The constant for normalization of is determined by the integral:
where σ is the surface measure of the unit sphere :
3.3. Spinors of Laurent Polynomial Type
If φ is a harmonic spinor on then we have the expansion
that is uniformly convergent on any compact subset of . The coefficients are given by the formula
where is the inner product of .
Lemma 1.
The formulas follow from Equation (59) if we take and .
Definition 2.
- We call the series Equation (58) a spinor of Laurent polynomial type if only finitely many coefficients are non-zero . The space of spinors of Laurent polynomial type is denoted by .
- For a spinor of Laurent polynomial type φ we call the vector the residue at 0 of φ.
We have the residue formula [9].
Remark 1. To develop the spinor analysis on the 4-sphere we patch two local coordinates and together by the inversion . This is a conformal transformation with the conformal weight . An even spinor on a subset is a pair of and such that for . Let φ be a spinor of Laurent polynomial type on . The coefficient of φ and the coefficient of are related by the formula:
Proposition 6. The residue of is related to the trace of , Lemma 1, by
3.4. Algebraic Generators of
In the following we show that restricted to becomes an algebra. The multiplication of two harmonic polynomials on is not harmonic but its restriction to is again the restriction to of some harmonic polynomial. We shall see that this yields the fact that , restricted to , becomes an associative subalgebra of . Before we give the proof we look at examples that convince us of the necessity of the restriction to .
Example 1. is decomposed to the sum
which is not in . But the restriction to is
See the table at the end of this subsection.
We start with the following facts:
- We have the product formula for the harmonic polynomials .for some rational numbers . See Lemma 4.1 of [12].
- Let , and . The above Equation (64) yields that, restricted to , the harmonic polynomial is equal to a constant multiple of modulo a linear combination of polynomials , .
- and are written by linear combinations of and .
- Therefore the product of two spinors belongs to . becomes an associative algebra.
- is written by a linear combination of the products for , and .
Hence we find that the algebra is generated by the following :
The others are generated by these basis. For example,
3.5. 2-Cocycle on
Let be the set of smooth even spinors on . We define the Lie algebra structure on after Equation (22), that is, for even spinors and , we have the Lie bracket
For a , we put
Lemma 2. For any , we have
The second assertion follows from the fact
for any function f on .
Proposition 7.
on .
Now we shall introduce a non-trivial 2-cocycle on .
Definition 3. For and , we put
Example 2.
Proposition 8. c defines a non-trivial 2-cocycle on the algebra . That is, c satisfies the following equations:
And there is no 1-cochain b such that .
Proof. By Equation (68) and the Leibnitz rule Equation (67) we have
Hence
The following calculation proves Equation (72).
Suppose now that c is the coboundary of a 1-cochain . Then
for any . Take and . Then , so . But . Therefore c can not be a coboundary. ☐
3.6. Calculations of the 2-Cocycle on the Basis
We shall calculate the values of 2-cocycles c for the basis of . First we have a lemma that is useful for the following calculations.
Lemma 3.
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Lemma 4.
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Proof. Since , we have
By the above lemma we obtain the value of . The others follow similarly. ☐
3.7. Radial Derivative on
We define the following operator on :
For an even spinor we put
Note that if then .
Proposition 9.
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- Let such that or , . We putThen
- 4.
- Let φ be a spinor of Laurent polynomial type:Then
Proof. The Formula Equation (79) follows from the Definition Equation (50). The last assertion follows from the fact that the coefficient of in the Laurent expansion of vanishes. ☐
Definition 4 . Let be the subspace of consisting of those elements that are of homogeneous order N: .
is spanned by the spinors such that each is equal to or , where and as before, and such that
is decomposed into the direct sum of :
Equation (80) implies that the eigenvalues of on are and is the space of eigenspinors for the eigenvalue .
Example
Proposition 10.
In fact, since , we have
4. Extensions of the Lie Algebra
In this section we shall construct a central extension for the 3-dimensional loop algebra associated to the above 2-cocycle c, and the central extension of induced from it. Then we shall give the second central extension by adding a derivative to the first extension that acts as the radial derivation.
4.1. Extension of
From Proposition 2 we see that endowed with the following bracket becomes a Lie algebra.
for the basis vectors X and Y of and .
We take the non-degenerate invariant symmetric bilinear -valued form on and extend it to . For and written by the basis of , is defined by
Then we define a -valued 2-cocycle on the Lie algebra by
The 2-cocycle property follows from the fact and Proposition 8.
Let a be an indefinite number. There is an extension of the Lie algebra by the 1-dimensional center associated to the cocycle c. Explicitly, we have the following theorem.
Theorem 5. The -vector space
endowed with the following bracket becomes a Lie algebra.
for the basis vectors X and Y of and .
As a Lie subalgebra of we have .
Definition 6 We denote by the extension of the Lie algebra by the 1-dimensional center associated to the cocycle c:
The Lie bracket is given by
for and .
4.2. Extension of by the Derivation
We introduced the radial derivative acting on . preserves the space of spinors of Laurent polynomial type . The derivation on is extended to a derivation of the Lie algebra by
In fact we have from Equation (78)
On the other hand
Since from Proposition 10 we have
Thus is a derivation that acts on the Lie algebra .
We denote by the Lie algebra that is obtained by adjoining a derivation d to which acts on as and which kills a. More explicitly we have the following
Theorem 7. Let a and be indefinite elements. We consider the vector space:
and define the following bracket on . For and the basis vectors X and Y of , we put
Then becomes a Lie algebra.
Proof. It is enough to prove the following Jacobi identity:
In the following we shall abbreviate the bracket simply to . We have
Similarly
The sum of three equations vanishes by virtue of Equation (78) and Proposition 10. ☐
Remember from Definition 4 that denotes the subspace in generated by the products with each being or , , such that
Proposition 11. The centralizer of in is given by
The proposition follows from Equation (80) .
5. Structure of
5.1. The Weight Space Decomposition of
Let be a simple Lie algebra. Let be a Cartan subalgebra of and be the root space decomposition with the root space . Here is the set of roots and . Let be the set of simple roots and be the set of simple coroots. The Cartan matrix is given by . Fix a standard set of generators , , , so that , and . Let be the set of positive (respectively negative) roots of and put
Then . The enveloping algebra of has the direct sum decomposition:
In the following we summarize the known results on the representation [14,15]. The set
forms a basis of the enveloping algebra . The adjoint action of is extended to that on :
is called a weight of the representation if there exists a non-zero such that for all . Let Σ be the set of weights of the representation . The weight space for the weight λ is by definition
Let , . For any ,
gives a weight vector with the weight ; . Conversely any weight λ may be written in the form , though the coefficients are not uniquely determined.
Lemma 5.
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- The set of weights of the adjoint representation isIf we denotethen .
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- If then .
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- For each , is generated by the basiswith such that , .In particular is generated by the basiswith , . In particular
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5.2. Weight Space Decomposition of
In the following we shall investigate the Lie algebra structure of
Remember that the Lie bracket was defined by
for the basis vectors X and Y of . Since we identify with . Thus we look as a Lie subalgebra of :
and we shall write simply as X.
Let
We write with and . For any , and , it holds that
Then the adjoint action of on is written as follows
for .
An element λ of the dual space of can be regarded as an element of by putting
So is seen to be a subset of . We define the elements by
Then the set forms a basis of . Similarly Σ is a subset of .
Since is a commutative subalgebra of , is decomposed into a direct sum of the simultaneous eigenspaces of , .
For , , , we put,
λ is called a weight of if . is called the weight space of .
Let denote the set of weights of the representation .
Theorem 8.
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- For , and , we have
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- has the following decomposition:
Proof. First we prove the second assertion. Let for a , , and let for a . We have, for any ,
that is, for every , we have
Therefore we have .
Conversely, for a given and a , we shall show that ξ has the form with and . Let for , and . ϕ is decomposed to the sum
by the homogeneous degree; . We have
for any . From the assumption we have
Comparing the above two equations we have , and for all n except for . Therefore . We also have for all . Hence and . We have proved
The proof of the third assertion is also carried out by the same argument as above if we revise it for the case . The above discussion yields the first and the fourth assertions. ☐
Proposition 12. We have the following relations:
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- for and for .
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- for .
Proof. Let and . Then we have, for ,
On the other hand,
Hence
for any . Therefore
The same calculation for and yields
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5.3. Generators of
Let be the set of simple roots and be the set of simple coroots. , , , denote the Chevalley generators;
Let be the Cartan matrix of ; .
By the natural embedding of in we have the vectors
It is easy to verify the relations:
We have obtained a part of generators of that come naturally from .
We recall that for an affine Lie algebra there is a special Chevalley generator coming from the irreducible representation spaces of the simple Lie algebra . Let θ be the highest root of and suppose that and satisfy the relations and , then we have a Chevalley generator for the subalgebra and adding d we have the Chevalley generators of the affine Lie algebra [2,5,16]. In the sequel we shall do a similar observation for our Lie algebra . We put
We recall that .
Lemma 6.
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We consider the following vectors of :
Then we have the generators of that are given by the following three tuples:
These three tuples satisfy the following relations.
Proposition 13.
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Acknowledgments
A résumé of these results has appeared in [17]. The present article is devoted to the explanation of these results with detailed proof. The authors would like to express their thanks to Yasushi Homma of Waseda University for his valuable objections to the early version of this paper.
Author Contributions
Tosiaki Kori and Yuto Imai wrote the paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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