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TMF, 2008 Volume 156, Number 3, Pages 378–397 (Mi tmf6254)

Shapovalov determinant for loop superalgebras

A. V. Lebedevab, D. A. Leitesc

a N. I. Lobachevski State University of Nizhni Novgorod
b Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
c Stockholm University

Abstract: For the Kac–Moody superalgebra associated with the loop superalgebra with values in a finite-dimensional Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak g$, we show what its quadratic Casimir element is equal to if the Casimir element for $\mathfrak g$ is known (if $\mathfrak g$ has an even invariant supersymmetric bilinear form). The main tool is the Wick normal form of the even quadratic Casimir operator for the Kac–Moody superalgebra associated with $\mathfrak g$; this Wick normal form is independently interesting. If $\mathfrak g$ has an odd invariant supersymmetric bilinear form, then we compute the cubic Casimir element. In addition to the simple Lie superalgebras $\mathfrak g=\mathfrak g(A)$ with a Cartan matrix $A$ for which the Shapovalov determinant was known, we consider the Poisson Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{poi}(0\mid n)$ and the related Kac–Moody superalgebra.

Keywords: Lie superalgebra, Shapovalov determinant.

Received: 07.02.2007

DOI: 10.4213/tmf6254


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2008, 156:3, 1292–1307

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