{ "id": "2406.10548", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-06-15T08:01:26.000Z", "updated": "2024-06-15T08:01:26.000Z", "title": "Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras on the two-sphere and the two-torus", "authors": [ "Rutwig Campoamor-Stursberg", "Michel Rausch de Traubenberg" ], "comment": "10 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the 15-th International Workshop \"Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics\" (LT-15), 19-25 June 2023, Varna, Bulgaria", "categories": [ "math-ph", "hep-th", "math.MP", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "We particularise the construction of generalised Kac-Moody algebras associated to compact real manifolds to the case of the two-torus $\\mathbb T_2$ and the two-sphere ${\\mathbb S}^2$. It is shown that these algebras, as well as a Virasoro algebra associated to the two-torus and the two-sphere, can also be derived considering the usual Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-06-15T08:01:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "virasoro algebra", "two-sphere", "compact real manifolds", "generalised kac-moody algebras" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }