Positive Lyapunov exponents for Schrödinger operators with quasi-periodic potentials

Theq=0 combinatorics for is studied in connection with solvable lattice models. Crystal bases of highest weight representations of are labelled by paths which were introduced as labels of corner transfer matrix eigenvectors atq=0. It is shown that the crystal graphs for finite tensor products ofl-th symmetric tensor representations of approximate the crystal graphs of levell representations of . The identification is made between restricted paths for the RSOS models and highest weight vectors in the crystal graphs of tensor modules for .Partially supported by NSF grant MDA904-90-H-4039     

Covariance algebras in field theory and statistical mechanics

Starting from aC*-algebra and a locally compact groupT of automorphisms of we construct a covariance algebra with the property that the corresponding *-representations are in one-to-one correspondence with covariant representations of i.e. *-representations of in which the automorphisms are continuously unitarily implemented. We further construct for relativistic field theory an algebra yielding the *-representations of in which the space time translations have their spectrum contained inV. The problem of denumerable occurence of superselection sectors is formulated as a condition on the spectrum of . Finally we consider the covariance algebra built with space translations alone and show its relevance for the discussion of equilibrium states in statistical mechanics, namely we restore in this framework the equivalence of uniqueness of the vacuum, irreducibility and a weak clustering property.On leave of absence from Istituto di Fisica G. Marconi — Roma.     

Isomorphism of two realizations of quantum affine algebraU_q (\widehat{\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}{\text{(}}n{\text{)}}})

We establish an explicit isomorphism between two realizations of the quantum affine algebra given previously by Drinfeld and Reshetikhin-Semenov-Tian-Shansky. Our result can be considered as an affine version of the isomorphism between the Drinfield/Jimbo and the Faddeev-Reshetikhin-Takhtajan constructions of the quantum algebra .     

N=2 structures on solvable Lie algebras: Thec=9 classification

Let be a finite-dimensional Lie algebra (not necessarily semisimple). It is known that if is self-dual (that is, if it possesses an invariant metric) then it admits anN=1 (affine) Sugawara construction. Under certain additional hypotheses, thisN=1 structure admits anN=2 extension. If this is the case, is said to possess anN=2 structure. It is also known that anN=2 structure on a self-dual Lie algebra is equivalent to a vector space decomposition , where are isotropic Lie subalgebras. In other words,N=2 structures on in one-to-one correspondence with Manin triples . In this paper we exploit this correspondence to obtain a classification of thec=9N=2 structures on solvable Lie algebras. In the process we also give some simple proofs for a variety of Lie algebras. In the process we also give some simple proofs for a variety of Lie algebraic results concerning self-dual Lie algebras admitting symplectic or Kähler structures.     

Hyperspin manifolds

Riemannian manifolds are but one of three ways to extrapolate from four-dimensional Minkowskian manifolds to spaces of higher dimension, and not the most plausible. If we take seriously a certain construction of time space from spinors, and replace the underlying binary spinors byN-ary hyperspinors with new internal components besides the usual two external ones, this leads to a second line, the hyperspin manifolds and their tangent spaces , different in structure and symmetry group from the Riemannian line, except that the binary spaces (Minkowski time space) and (Minkowskian manifold) lie on both. and have dimensionn=N ². In hyperspin manifolds the energies of modes of motion multiply instead of adding their squares, and theN-ary chronometric form is not quadratic, butN-ic, with determinantal normal form. For the nine-dimensional ternary hyperspin manifold, we construct the trino, trine-Gordon, and trirac equations and their mass spectra in flat time space. It is possible that our four-dimensional time space sits in a hyperspin manifold rather than in a Kaluza-Klein Riemannian manifold. If so, then gauge quanta with spin-3 exist.     

BV Structure of the Cohomology of Nilpotent Subalgebras and the Geometry of(W) Strings

Given a simple, simply laced, complex Lie algebra corresponding to the Lie group G, let be thesubalgebra generated by the positive roots. In this Letter we construct aBV algebra whose underlying graded commutative algebra is given by the cohomology, with respect to , of the algebra of regular functions on G with values in . We conjecture that describes the algebra of allphysical (i.e., BRST invariant) operators of the noncritical string. The conjecture is verified in the two explicitly known cases, ₂ (the Virasoro string) and ₃ (the string).     

Bethe subalgebras in twisted Yangians

We study analogues of the Yangian of the Lie algebra for the other classical Lie algebras and . We call them twisted Yangians. They are coideal subalgebras in the Yangian of and admit homomorphisms onto the universal enveloping algebras U( ) and U( ) respectively. In every twisted Yangian we construct a family of maximal commutative subalgebras parametrized by the regular semisimple elements of the corresponding classical Lie algebra. The images in U( ) and U( ) of these subalgebras are also maximal commutative.     

On the purification of factor states

Let be aC*-algebra and be an opposite algebra. Notions of exact andj-positive states of are introduced. It is shown, that any factor state of can be extended to a pure exactj-positive state of . The correspondence generalizes the notion of the purifications map introduced by Powers and Størmer. The factor states ₁ and ₂ are quasi-equivalent if and only if their purifications and are equivalent.     

Derivations and automorphisms of operator algebras

The theorem that each derivation of aC*-algebra extends to an inner derivation of the weak-operator closure ( )^– of in each faithful representation of is proved in sketch and used to study the automorphism group of in its norm topology. It is proved that the connected component of the identity in this group contains the open ball of radius 2 with centerl and that each automorphism in extends to an inner automorphism of ( )^–.Research conducted with the partial support of the NSF and ONR.     

Minimal affinizations of representations of quantum groups: the irregular case

Let be a finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebra and U_q( ) the associated quantum group (q is a nonzero complex number which we assume is transcendental). IfV is a finitedimensional irreducible representation of U_q( ), an affinization ofV is an irreducible representationVV of the quantum affine algebra U_q( ) which containsV with multiplicity one and is such that all other irreducible U_q( )-components ofV have highest weight strictly smaller than the highest weight ofV. There is a natural partial order on the set of U_q( ) classes of affinizations, and we look for the minimal one(s). In earlier papers, we showed that (i) if is of typeA, B, C, F orG, the minimal affinization is unique up to U_q( )-isomorphism; (ii) if is of typeD orE and is not orthogonal to the triple node of the Dynkin diagram of , there are either one or three minimal affinizations (depending on ). In this paper, we show, in contrast to the regular case, that if U_q( ) is of typeD ₄ and is orthogonal to the triple node, the number of minimal affinizations has no upper bound independent of .As a by-product of our methods, we disprove a conjecture according to which, if is of typeA _n,every affinization is isomorphic to a tensor product of representations of U_q( ) which are irreducible under U_q( ) (in an earlier paper, we proved this conjecture whenn=1).Both authors were partially supported by the NSF, DMS-9207701.     

Double quantization on the coadjoint representation of sl(n)

For we construct a two parametric -invariant family of algebras, , that is a quantization of the function algebra on the coadjoint representation. Along the parameter t the family gives a quantization of the Lie bracket. This family induces a two parametric -invariant quantization on the maximal orbits, which includes a quantization of the Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau bracket. Yet we construct a quantum de Rham complex on .     

Representations of empirical set theories

Any manual of Boolean locales in the strong sense, namely a subcategory of the opposite category of the category of complete Boolean algebras and complete Boolean homomorphisms satisfying not only conditions (3.1)–(3.10) of our previous paper [International Journal of Theoretical Physics,32, 1293 (1993b)], but also conditions (4.1)–(4.4) of that paper, is shown to be representable as the second-class orthomodular manual of Boolean locales on an orthomodular poset In this sense the study on manuals of Boolean locales in the strong sense is tantamount to the study on a special class of orthomodular posets, though our viewpoint is radically different from the conventional one in the traditional approach to orthomodular posets. Then the notion of a manual of Hilbert spaces or exactly what is called a manual of Hilbert locales is introduced, over which a variant of the celebrated Gelfand-Naimark-Segal theorem for a manual of Boolean locales in the strong sense is established.     

A Construction of Representations and Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

A simplified construction of representations is presented for the quantized enveloping algebra q ( ), with being a simple complex Lie algebra belonging to one of the four principal series A\ell, B\ell, C\ell or D\ell. The carrier representation space is the quantized algebra of polynomials in antiholomorphic coordinate functions on the big cell of a coadjoint orbit of K where K is the compact simple Lie group with the Lie algebra – the compact form of .     

A quantum dual pair \mathfraks\mathfrakl2 ,\mathfrakon \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}_2 ,\mathfrak{o}_n and the associated Capelli identity

A quantum analogue of the dual pair is introduced in terms of the oscillator representation of U _q . Its commutant and the associated identity of Capelli type are discussed.     

Fields,observables and gauge transformations I

Starting from an algebra of fields and a compact gauge group of the first kind , the observable algebra is defined as the gauge invariant part of . A gauge group of the first kind is shown to be automatically compact if the scattering states are complete and the mass and spin multiplets have finite multiplicity. Under reasonable assumptions about the structure of it is shown that the inequivalent irreducible representations of (sectors) which occur are in one-to-one correspondence with the inequivalent irreducible representations of and that all of them are strongly locally equivalent. An irreducible representation of satisfies the duality property only if the sector corresponds to a 1-dimensional representation of . If is Abelian the sectors are connected to each other by localized automorphisms.On leave of absence from Instituto di Fisica G. Marconi, Università di Roma.     

On the equilibrium states in quantum statistical mechanics

Representations of theC*-algebra of observables corresponding to thermal equilibrium of a system at given temperatureT and chemical potential are studied. Both for finite and for infinite systems it is shown that the representation is reducible and that there exists a conjugation in the representation space, which maps the von Neumann algebra spanned by the representative of onto its commutant. This means that there is an equivalent anti-linear representation of in the commutant. The relation of these properties with the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger boundary condition is discussed.     

On the continuity of automorphic representations of groups

Given a weakly continuous automorphic representation of a groupG on a concreteC*-algebra , we show that a mild joint continuity condition makes it possible to extend to a weakly continuous representation ofG on the weak closure of . IfG is locally compact and is a von Neumann algebra, this condition is automatically satisfied.Research supported by NSF.     

Unbounded derivations commuting with compact group actions

Let be a closed * derivation in aC* algebra which commutes with an ergodic action of a compact group on . Then generates aC* dynamics of . Similar results are obtained for non-ergodic actions on abelianC* algebras and on the algebra of compact operators.Research supported by N.S.F.     

An algebraic spectrum condition

It is shown that a translationally invariant algebra of local observables (see [1]) admits a representation in a Hilbert space having a vacuum state. Furthermore an algebraic criterion is given which is necessary and sufficient for the existence of at least one representation of in which the usual spectral condition for the energy-momentum operators holds.     

Regularized,continuum Yang-Mills process and Feynman-Kac functional integral

Giving an ultraviolet regularization and volume cut off we construct a nuclear Riemannian structure on the Hilbert manifold of gauge orbits. This permits us to define a regularized Laplace-Beltrami operator on and an associated global diffusion in governed by . This enables us to define, via a Feynman-Kac integral, a Euclidean, continuum regularized Yang-Mills process corresponding to a suitable regularization (of the kinetic term) of the classical Yang-Mills Lagrangian onT .On leave of absence from Zaragoza University (Spain)Laboratoire associé au CNRS