To any manifold equipped with a higher degree closed form, one can associate an L∞-algebra of local observables that generalizes the Poisson algebra of a symplectic manifold. Here, by means of an explicit homotopy equivalence, we interpret this L∞-algebra in terms of infinitesimal autoequivalences of higher prequantum bundles. By truncating the connection data on the prequantum bundle, we produ...

We realize the current algebra of a Kac-Moody algebra as a quotient of a semi-direct product of the Kac-Moody Lie algebra and the free Lie algebra of the Kac-Moody algebra. We use this realization to study the representations of the current algebra. In particular we see that every ad-invariant ideal in the symmetric algebra of the Kac-Moody algebra gives rise in a canonical way to a representat...

We define a remarkable Lie algebra of infinite dimension, and conjecture that it may be related to the Fischer-Griess Monster group. The idea was mooted in [C-N] that there might be an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra (or superalgebra) L that in some sense “explains” the Fischer-Griess ‘Monster” group M . In this chapter we produce some candidates for L based on properties of the Leech lattice ...

This work is an investigation into the structure and properties of Lie hypermatrix algebra generated by a semisimple basis. By using new algebraic tools; namely cubic hypermatrices I obtain an algebraic structure associated with the basis of a semisimple Lie algebra, and I show that the semisimple Lie basis is a generator of infinite periodic semisimple hypermatrix structures, that has a classi...

This paper studies the relationship between representations of a Lie group and representations of its Lie algebra. We will make the correspondence in two steps: First we shall prove that a given representation of a Lie group will provide us with a corresponding representation of its Lie algebra. Second, we shall go backwards and see whether a given representation of a Lie algebra will have a co...

Braided-Lie bialgebras have been introduced by Majid, as the Lie versions of Hopf algebras in braided categories. In this paper we extend previous work of Majid and of ours to show that there is a braided-Lie bialgebra associated to each inclusion of Kac–Moody bialgebras. Doing so, we obtain many new examples of infinite-dimensional braided-Lie bialgebras. We analyze further the case of untwist...