Infinite Dimensional Grassmann Research Articles

Witten's gauge field equations and an infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifold

Witten's gauge fields are interpreted as motions on an infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifold. Unlike the case of self-dual Yang-Mills equations in Takasaki's work, the initial data must satisfy a system of differential equations since Witten's equations comprise a pair of spectral parameters. Solutions corresponding to (anti-) self-dual Yang-Mills fields are characterized in the space of initial data and in application, some Yang-Mills fields which are not self-dual, anti-self-dual nor abelian can be constructed.

On the support of quasi-invariant measures on infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifolds

One antisymmetric analogue of Gaussian measure on a Hilbert space is a certain measure on an infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifold. The main purpose of this paper is to show that the characteristic function of this measure is continuous in a weighted norm for graph coordinates. As a consequence the measure is supported on a thickened Grassmann manifold. The action of certain unitary transformations, in particular smooth loops S 1 → U ( n , C ) {S^1} \to U(n,{\mathbf {C}}) , extends to this thickened Grassmannian, and the measure is quasiinvariant with respect to these point transformations.

Graded manifolds, supermanifolds and infinite-dimensional Grassmann algebras

A new approach to superdifferentiable functions of Grassmann variables is developed, which avoids ambiguities in odd derivatives. This is used to give an improved definition of supermanifold over a finite-dimensional Grassmann algebra. A natural embedding of super-manifolds over Grassmann algebras with increasing number (L) of generators is developed, and thus a limit asL tends to infinity is possible. A correspondence between graded manifolds and supermanifolds is constructed, extending results of [5] and [8].

Spin and wedge representations of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and groups

We suggest a purely algebraic construction of the spin representation of an infinite-dimensional orthogonal Lie algebra (sections 1 and 2) and a corresponding group (section 4). From this we deduce a construction of all level-one highest-weight representations of orthogonal affine Lie algebras in terms of creation and annihilation operators on an infinite-dimensional Grassmann algebra (section 3). We also give a similar construction of the level-one representations of the general linear affine Lie algebra in an infinite-dimensional "wedge space." Along these lines we construct the corresponding representations of the universal central extension of the group SL(n)(k[t,t(-1)]) in spaces of sections of line bundles over infinite-dimensional homogeneous spaces (section 5).