1. Introduction
The set of smooth mappings from a manifold to a Lie algebra has been a subject of investigation both from a purely mathematical standpoint and from quantum field theory. In quantum field theory they appear as a current algebra or an infinitesimal gauge transformation group. Loop algebras are the simplest example. Loop algebras and their representation theory have been fully worked out. A loop algebra valued in a simple Lie algebra or its complexification turned out to behave like a simple Lie algebra and the highly developed theory of finite dimensional Lie algebra was extended to such loop algebras. Loop algebras appear in the simplified model of quantum field theory where the space is one-dimensional and many important facts in the representation theory of loop algebra were first discovered by physicists. As is well known, A. Belavin
et al. [
1] constructed two-dimensional conformal field theory based on the irreducible representations of Virasoro algebra. It turned out that in many applications to field theory one must deal with certain extensions of the associated loop algebra rather than the loop algebra itself. The central extension of a loop algebra is called an affine Lie algebra and the highest weight theory of finite dimensional Lie algebra was extended to this case. [
2,
3,
4,
5] are good references to study these subjects.
In this paper we shall investigate a generalization of affine Lie algebras to the Lie algebra of mappings from three-sphere
to a Lie algebra. As an affine Lie algebra is a central extension of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from
to the complexification of a Lie algebra, so our objective is an extension of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from
to the quaternification of a Lie algebra. As for the higher dimensional generalization of loop groups, J. Mickelsson introduced an abelian extension of current groups
for
[
6]. It is related to the Chern-Simons function on the space of
-connections and the associated current algebra
has an abelian extension
by the affine dual of the space
of connections over
[
7]. In [
4] it was shown that, for any smooth manifold
M and a simple Lie algebra
, there is a universal central extension of the Lie algebra
. The kernel of the extension is given by the space of complex valued 1-forms modulo exact 1-forms;
. It implies that any extension is a weighted linear combination of extensions obtained as a pull back of the universal extension of the loop algebra
by a smooth loop
. We are dealing with central extensions of the Lie algebra of smooth mappings from
to the quaternification of a Lie algebra. Now we shall give a brief explanation of each section.
Let
be the quaternion numbers. In this paper we shall denote a quaternion
by
. This comes from the identification of
with the matrix algebra
becomes an associative algebra and the Lie algebra structure
is induced on it. The trace of
is defined by
. For
we have
.
Let
be a complex Lie algebra. Let
be the enveloping algebra. The quaternification of
is defined as the vector space
endowed with the bracket
for
and the basis vectors
X and
Y of
. It extends the Lie algebra structure
to
. The quaternions
give also a half spinor representation of
. That is,
gives an irreducible complex representation of the Clifford algebra
:
, and Δ decomposes into irreducible representations
of
. Let
be the trivial even ( respectively odd ) spinor bundle. A section of spinor bundle is called a spinor. The space of even half spinors
is identified with the space
. Now the space
becomes a Lie algebra with respect to the bracket:
for the basis vectors
X and
Y of
and
. In the sequel we shall abbreviate the Lie bracket
simply to
. Such an abbreviation will be often adopted for other Lie algebras.
Recall that the central extension of a loop algebra
is the Lie algebra
given by the bracket
with the aid of the 2-cocycle
, where
is a non-degenerate invariant symmetric bilinear form on
, [
2]. We shall give an analogous 2-cocycle on
. Let
θ be the vector field on
defined by
For
, we put
Let
be the bilinear form given by
c defines a 2-cocycle on the algebra
. That is,
satisfies the following equations:
and
We extend
c to the 2-cocycle on
by
where
is the non-degenerate invariant symmetric bilinear form on
extended to
.
Let
a be an indefinite element. The Lie algebra extension of
by the 2-cocycle
c is the
-vector space
endowed with the following bracket:
for the basis vectors
X and
Y of
and
.
In
Section 2 we shall review the theory of spinor analysis after [
8,
9]. Let
be the ( half spinor ) Dirac operator. Let
be the polar decomposition on
of the Dirac operator, where
is the tangential Dirac operator on
and
is the Clifford multiplication of the unit normal derivative on
. The eigenvalues of
are given by
, with multiplicity
. We have an explicitly written formula for eigenspinors
corresponding to the eigenvalue
and
respectively and they give rise to a complete orthogonal system in
. A spinor
ϕ on a domain
is called a
harmonic spinor on
G if
. Each
is extended to a harmonic spinor on
, while each
is extended to a harmonic spinor on
. Every harmonic spinor
φ on
has a Laurent series expansion by the basis
:
If only finitely many coefficients are non-zero it is called a spinor of Laurent polynomial type. The algebra of spinors of Laurent polynomial type is denoted by . is a subalgebra of that is algebraically generated by , , and .
As a Lie subalgebra of
,
has the central extension by the 2-cocycle
. That is, the
-vector space
endowed with the Lie bracket Equation (
6) becomes an extension of
with 1-dimensional center
. Finally we shall construct the Lie algebra which is obtained by adding to
a derivation
d which acts on
by the Euler vector field
on
. The Euler vector field is by definition
. We have the following fundamental property of the cocycle
.
Let
. We endow
with the bracket defined by
Then
is an extension of the Lie algebra
on which
d acts as
. In
Section 4, when
is a simple Lie algebra with its Cartan subalgebra
, we shall investigate the weight space decomposition of
with respect to the subalgebra
, the latter is a commutative subalgebra and
acts on
diagonally. For this purpose we look at the representation of the adjoint action of
on the enveloping algebra
. Let
be the root space decomposition of
. Let
be the set of simple roots and
be the set of simple coroots. The Cartan matrix
is given by
. Fix a standard set of generators
,
,
, so that
,
and
. We see that the set of weights of the representation
becomes
The weight space of
is by definition
when
. Then, given
, we have
The weight space decomposition becomes
Now we proceed to the representation
. The dual space
of
can be regarded naturally as a subspace of
. So
is seen to be a subset of
. We define
by putting
,
, and
. Then the set of weights
of the representation
is
The weight space decomposition of
is given by
Each weight space is given as follows
where
3. Analysis on
In this section we shall review the analysis of the Dirac operator on
. The general references are [
10,
11], and we follow the calculations developed in [
8,
9,
12].
3.1. Harmonic Polynomials
The Lie group SU(2) acts on
both from the right and from the left. Let
dR(g) and
dL(g) denote respectively the right and the left infinitesimal actions of the Lie algebra
. We define the following vector fields on
:
where
is the normal basis of
, Equation (
18) . Each of the triple
,
, and
,
, gives a basis of the vector fields on the three sphere
.
It is more convenient to introduce the following vector fields:
We have the commutation relations;
Both Lie algebras spanned by and are isomorphic to .
In the following we denote a function
of variables
simply by
. For
, and
, we define the polynomials:
Then
and
are harmonic polynomials on
;
where
.
forms a -complete orthonormal basis of the space of harmonic polynomials, as well as .
Therefore the space of harmonic polynomials on
is decomposed by the right action of SU(2) into
. Each
gives an (m + 1) dimensional irreducible representation of
with the highest weight
, [
13].
We have the following relations.
3.2. Harmonic Spinors
gives an irreducible complex representation of the Clifford algebra
:
Δ decomposes into irreducible representations
of
. Let
be the trivial spinor bundle on
. The corresponding bundle
( resp.
) is called the even ( resp. odd ) spinor bundle and the sections are called even ( resp. odd ) spinors. The set of even spinors or odd spinors on a set
is nothing but the smooth functions on
M valued in
:
The Dirac operator is defined by
where
is the exterior differential and
is the bundle homomorphism coming from the Clifford multiplication. By means of the decomposition
the Dirac operator has the chiral decomposition:
We find that
D and
have the following coordinate expressions;
An even (resp. odd) spinor
φ is called a
harmonic spinor if
( resp.
).
We shall introduce a set of harmonic spinors which, restricted to , forms a complete orthonormal basis of .
Let
ν and
μ be vector fields on
defined by
Then the radial vector field is defined by
We shall denote by
γ the Clifford multiplication of the radial vector
, Equation (48).
γ changes the chirality:
The matrix expression of
γ becomes as follows:
In the sequel we shall write (resp. ) for (resp. ).
Proposition 4. The Dirac operators D and have the following polar decompositions:where the tangential (nonchiral) Dirac operator is given by Proof. In the matrix expression Equation (46) of D and , we have etc., and we have the desired formulas. ☐
The tangential Dirac operator on the sphere
;
is a self adjoint elliptic differential operator.
We put, for
and
,
is a harmonic spinor on
and
is a harmonic spinor on
that is regular at infinity.
From Proposition 3 we have the following.
Proposition 5. On we have: The eigenvalues of areand the multiplicity of each eigenvalue is equal to . The set of eigenspinorsforms a complete orthonormal system of . The constant for normalization of
is determined by the integral:
where
σ is the surface measure of the unit sphere
:
3.3. Spinors of Laurent Polynomial Type
If
φ is a harmonic spinor on
then we have the expansion
that is uniformly convergent on any compact subset of
. The coefficients
are given by the formula
where
is the inner product of
.
The formulas follow from Equation (59) if we take and .
Definition 2.We call the series Equation (58) a spinor of Laurent polynomial type if only finitely many coefficients are non-zero . The space of spinors of Laurent polynomial type is denoted by .
For a spinor of Laurent polynomial type φ we call the vector the residue at 0 of φ.
We have the residue formula [
9].
Remark 1. To develop the spinor analysis on the 4-sphere we patch two local coordinates and together by the inversion . This is a conformal transformation with the conformal weight . An even spinor on a subset is a pair of and such that for . Let φ be a spinor of Laurent polynomial type on . The coefficient of φ and the coefficient of are related by the formula: Proposition 6. The residue of is related to the trace of , Lemma 1, by 3.4. Algebraic Generators of
In the following we show that restricted to becomes an algebra. The multiplication of two harmonic polynomials on is not harmonic but its restriction to is again the restriction to of some harmonic polynomial. We shall see that this yields the fact that , restricted to , becomes an associative subalgebra of . Before we give the proof we look at examples that convince us of the necessity of the restriction to .
Example 1. is decomposed to the sumwhich is not in . But the restriction to isSee the table at the end of this subsection. We start with the following facts:
We have the product formula for the harmonic polynomials
.
for some rational numbers
. See Lemma 4.1 of [
12].
Let , and . The above Equation (64) yields that, restricted to , the harmonic polynomial is equal to a constant multiple of modulo a linear combination of polynomials , .
and are written by linear combinations of and .
Therefore the product of two spinors belongs to . becomes an associative algebra.
is written by a linear combination of the products for , and .
Hence we find that the algebra
is generated by the following
:
The others are generated by these basis. For example,
3.5. 2-Cocycle on
Let
be the set of smooth even spinors on
. We define the Lie algebra structure on
after Equation (
22), that is, for even spinors
and
, we have the Lie bracket
For a
, we put
Lemma 2. For any , we have The second assertion follows from the fact
for any function
f on
.
Now we shall introduce a non-trivial 2-cocycle on .
Definition 3. For and , we put Proposition 8. c defines a non-trivial 2-cocycle on the algebra . That is, c satisfies the following equations: And there is no 1-cochain b such that .
Proof. By Equation (68) and the Leibnitz rule Equation (67) we have
The following calculation proves Equation (72).
Suppose now that
c is the coboundary of a 1-cochain
. Then
for any
. Take
and
. Then
, so
. But
. Therefore
c can not be a coboundary. ☐
3.6. Calculations of the 2-Cocycle on the Basis
We shall calculate the values of 2-cocycles c for the basis of . First we have a lemma that is useful for the following calculations.
Proof. Since
, we have
By the above lemma we obtain the value of . The others follow similarly. ☐
3.7. Radial Derivative on
We define the following operator
on
:
For an even spinor
we put
Note that if then .
Proposition 9.- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
Let such that or , . We putThen - 4.
Let φ be a spinor of Laurent polynomial type:Then
Proof. The Formula Equation (79) follows from the Definition Equation (50). The last assertion follows from the fact that the coefficient of in the Laurent expansion of vanishes. ☐
Definition 4 . Let be the subspace of consisting of those elements that are of homogeneous order N: .
is spanned by the spinors
such that each
is equal to
or
, where
and
as before, and such that
is decomposed into the direct sum of
:
Equation (80) implies that the eigenvalues of on are and is the space of eigenspinors for the eigenvalue .
In fact, since
, we have