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The Complete Unitary Dual of Non-compact Lie Superalgebra $${\mathfrak{su}({\rm p}, {\rm q}|{\rm m})}$$ via the Generalised Oscillator Formalism, and Non-compact Young Diagrams
- Source :
- Communications in Mathematical Physics. 367:873-939
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- We study the unitary representations of the non-compact real forms of the complex Lie superalgebra $${\mathfrak{sl}({\rm n}|{\rm m})}$$ . Among them, only the real form $${\mathfrak{su}({\rm p}, {\rm q}|{\rm m})}$$ with $${({\rm p} + {\rm q}= {\rm n)}}$$ admits nontrivial unitary representations, and all such representations are of the highest-weight type (or the lowest-weight type). We extend the standard oscillator construction of the unitary representations of non-compact Lie superalgebras over standard Fock spaces to generalised Fock spaces which allows us to define the action of oscillator determinants raised to non-integer powers. We prove that the proposed construction yields all the unitary representations including those with continuous labels. The unitary representations can be diagrammatically represented by non-compact Young diagrams. We apply our general results to the physically important case of four-dimensional conformal superalgebra $${\mathfrak{su}(2,2|4)}$$ and show how it yields readily its unitary representations including those corresponding to supermultiplets of conformal fields with continuous (anomalous) scaling dimensions.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Pure mathematics
010102 general mathematics
Real form
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Lie superalgebra
Conformal map
Scaling dimension
01 natural sciences
Unitary state
Superalgebra
Fock space
0103 physical sciences
010307 mathematical physics
0101 mathematics
Mathematical Physics
Supersymmetry algebra
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14320916 and 00103616
- Volume :
- 367
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ea0c7962a80e2219930c4487e21a4bc1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-019-03406-7