(1) Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1, CA;(2) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada S7N 5E6, CA
Abstract:
We give a new characterization of the affine Kac-Moody algebras in terms of extended affine Lie algebras. We also present new realizations of the twisted affine Kac-Moody algebras. Received: 17 April 1996 / Accepted: 11 October 1996