SU(INFINITY), SU+(INFINITY) AND AREA-PRESERVING ALGEBRAS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We examine the relation between the algebra of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of a two-dimensional surface and the algebra of SU(N) as N tends to infinity. We show that the area-preserving algebra of the sphere is equivalent to SU+(), whilst that of the torus is equivalent to SU(). 1989.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

  • POPE, C. N., & STELLE, K. S.

citation count

  • 40

complete list of authors

  • POPE, CN||STELLE, KS

publication date

  • August 1989