Birkhoff Type Decompositions and the Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff Recursion |
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Authors: | Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard Li Guo Dominique Manchon |
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Institution: | (1) I.H.é.S., Le Bois-Marie, 35, Route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France;(2) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, 07102, U.S.A.;(3) Université Blaise Pascal, C.N.R.S.-UMR 6620, 63177 Aubière, France |
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Abstract: | We describe a unification of several apparently unrelated factorizations arising from quantum field theory, vertex operator algebras, combinatorics and numerical methods in differential equations. The unification is given by a Birkhoff type decomposition that was obtained from the Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula in our study of the Hopf algebra approach of Connes and Kreimer to renormalization in perturbative quantum field theory. There we showed that the Birkhoff decomposition of Connes and Kreimer can be obtained from a certain Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff recursion formula in the presence of a Rota–Baxter operator. We will explain how the same decomposition generalizes the factorization of formal exponentials and uniformization for Lie algebras that arose in vertex operator algebra and conformal field theory, and the even-odd decomposition of combinatorial Hopf algebra characters as well as the Lie algebra polar decomposition as used in the context of the approximation of matrix exponentials in ordinary differential equations. |
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