We first introduce the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal formalism for a theory whose phase-space is an arbitrary Lie algebra. We also generalize to quantum Lie algebras and to supersymmetric theories. It turns out that the non-commutativity leads to a deformation of the classical phase-space: instead of being a vector space it becomes a manifold, the topology of which is given by the commutator relations. It ...

H. F. Jones, Groups, Representations and Physics, 2nd ed., IOP Publishing (1998). A fairly easy going introduction. H. Georgi, Lie Algebras in Particle Physics, Perseus Books (1999). Describes the basics of Lie algebras for classical groups. J. Fuchs and C. Schweigert, Symmetries, Lie Algebras and Representations, 2nd ed., CUP (2003). This is more comprehensive and more mathematically sophistic...

This paper studies the representations of semisimple Lie algebras, with care given to the case of sln(C). We develop and utilize various tools, including the adjoint representation, the Killing form, root space decomposition, and the Weyl group to classify the irreducible representations of semisimple Lie algebras.

We use fermionic representations to obtain a class of BC N -graded Lie algebras coordinatized by quantum tori with nontrivial central extensions. 0 Introduction Lie algebras graded by the reduced finite root systems were first introduced by Berman-Moody [BM] in order to understand the generalized intersection matrix algebras of Slodowy. [BM] classified Lie algebras graded by the root systems of...

Higher order generalizations of Lie algebras have equivalently been conceived as Lie n-algebras, as L∞-algebras, or, dually, as quasi-free differential graded commutative algebras. Here we discuss morphisms and higher morphisms of Lie n-algebras, the construction of inner derivation Lie (n+1)-algebras, and the existence of short exact sequences of Lie (2n + 1)-algebras for every transgressive L...

Vertex algebras provide an axiomatic algebraic description of the operator product expansion (OPE) of chiral fields in 2-dimensional conformal field theory. Vertex Lie algebras (= Lie conformal algebras) encode the singular part of the OPE, or, equivalently, the commutators of chiral fields. We discuss generalizations of vertex algebras and vertex Lie algebras, which are relevant for higher-dim...

This paper is about Toroidal Lie algebras which generalize the notion of an Affine Lie algebra. We study Verma type modules for these Toroidal algebras and prove an irreducibility criterion when the number of variables is two. We use the fact that the universal enveloping algebra is an Ore domain to obtain facts about the Verma type modules. Moreover, we are able to characterize the Affine Kac-...

To a hyperbolic smooth curve defined over a number-field one naturally associates an "anabelian" representation of the absolute Galois group of the base field landing in outer automorphism group of the algebraic fundamental group. In this paper, we introduce several deformation problems for Lie-algebra versions of the above representation and show that, this way we get a richer structure than t...