Factorization of formal exponentials and uniformization

Details Factorization of formal exponentials and uniformization Factorization of formal exponentials and uniformization

1999-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/math/9908151v1

J.Algebra.228:551-579,2000

Mathematics

Quantum Algebra

LaTex file, 31 pages

Scientific paper

10.1006/jabr.2000.8285

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a Lie algebra in characteristic zero equipped with a vector space decomposition $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{g}^-\oplus \mathfrak{g}^+$, and let $s$ and $t$ be commuting formal variables. We prove that the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff map $C:s\mathfrak{g}^- [[s,t]]\times t\mathfrak{g}^+[[s,t]]\to s\mathfrak{g}^-[[s,t]]\oplus t\mathfrak{g}^+[[s,t]]$ given by $e^{sg^-}e^{tg^+}=e^{C(sg^-,tg^+)}$ for $g^\pm\in\mathfrak{g}^\pm[[s,t]]$ is a bijection, as is well known when $\mathfrak{g}$ is finite-dimensional over $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$, by geometry. It follows that there exist unique $\Psi^\pm\in\mathfrak{g}^\pm[[s,t]]$ such that $e^{tg^+}e^{sg^-}= e^{s\Psi^-}e^{t\Psi^+}$ (also well known in the finite-dimensional geometric setting). We apply this to $\mathfrak{g}$ consisting of certain formal infinite series with coefficients in a Lie algebra $\mathfrak{p}$. For $\mathfrak{p}$ the Virasoro algebra (resp., a Grassmann envelope of the Neveu-Schwarz superalgebra), the result was first proved by Huang (resp., Barron) as a step in the construction of a (super)geometric formulation of the notion of vertex operator (super)algebra. For the Virasoro (resp., N=1 Neveu-Schwarz) algebra with zero central charge the result gives the precise expansion of the uniformizing function for a sphere (resp., supersphere) with tubes resulting from the sewing of two spheres (resp., superspheres) with tubes in two-dimensional genus-zero holomorphic conformal (resp., N = 1 superconformal) field theory. The general result places such uniformization problems into a broad formal algebraic context.

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