Author:
de Mello Koch Robert,Ramgoolam Sanjaye
Abstract
Abstract
The structure of half-BPS representations of psu(2, 2|4) leads to the definition of a super-polynomial ring $$ \mathcal{R} $$
R
(8|8) which admits a realisation of psu(2, 2|4) in terms of differential operators on the super-ring. The character of the half-BPS fundamental field representation encodes the resolution of the representation in terms of an exact sequence of modules of $$ \mathcal{R} $$
R
(8|8). The half-BPS representation is realized by quotienting the super-ring by a quadratic ideal, equivalently by setting to zero certain quadratic polynomials in the generators of the super-ring. This description of the half-BPS fundamental field irreducible representation of psu(2, 2|4) in terms of a super-polynomial ring is an example of a more general construction of lowest-weight representations of Lie (super-) algebras using polynomial rings generated by a commuting subspace of the standard raising operators, corresponding to positive roots of the Lie (super-) algebra. We illustrate the construction using simple examples of representations of su(3) and su(4). These results lead to the definition of a notion of quantum mechanical emergence for oscillator realisations of symmetries, which is based on ideals in the ring of polynomials in the creation operators.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics