1. Models for modules: the story of $\mathcal{O}$
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Jan Troost
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Statistics and Probability ,Physics ,Pure mathematics ,Verma module ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,010102 general mathematics ,Structure (category theory) ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics ,01 natural sciences ,Tensor product ,Modeling and Simulation ,Product (mathematics) ,0103 physical sciences ,Projective cover ,0101 mathematics ,Brane ,Mathematics::Representation Theory ,Indecomposable module ,Complex number ,Mathematical Physics - Abstract
We recall the structure of the indecomposable sl(2) modules in the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand category O. We show that all these modules can arise as quantized phase spaces of physical models. In particular, we demonstrate in a path integral discretization how a redefined action of the sl(2) algebra over the complex numbers can glue finite dimensional and infinite dimensional highest weight representations into indecomposable wholes. Furthermore, we discuss how projective cover representations arise in the tensor product of finite dimensional and Verma modules and give explicit tensor product decomposition rules. The tensor product spaces can be realized in terms of product path integrals. Finally, we discuss relations of our results to brane quantization and cohomological calculations in string theory.
- Published
- 2012
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