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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

Authors :
Dmytro Volin
Murat Gunaydin
Source :
Communications in Mathematical Physics. 367:873-939
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.

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.

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