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We discuss the restricted linear group in infinite dimensions modeled by the Schatten class of rank 2p=4 which contains the (3+1)-dimensional analogs of the loop groups and is closely related to Yang-Mills theory with fermions in (3+1)-dimensions. We give an alternative to the construction of the “highest weight” representation of this group found by Mickelsson and Rajeev. Our approach is close to quantum field theory, with the elements of this group regarded as Bogoliubov transformations for fermions in an external Yang-Mills field. Though these cannot be unitarily implemented in the physically relevant representation of the fermion field algebra, we argue that they can be implemented by sesquilinear forms, and that there is a (regularized) product of forms providing an appropriate group structure. On the Lie algebra level, this gives an explicit, non-perturbative construction of fermion current algebras in (3+1) space-time dimensions which explicity shows that the “wave function renormalization” required for a consistent definition of the currents and their Lie bracket naturally leads to the Schwinger term identical with the Mickelsson-Rajeev cocycle. Though the explicit form of the Schwinger term is given only for the casep=2, our arguments apply also to the restricted linear groups modeled by Schatten classes of rank 2p=6,8,...corresponding to current algebras in (d+1)-dimensions,d=5,7,...
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Communicated by N. Yu. Reshetikhin
Erwin Schrödinger-fellow, supported by the “Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung” under the contract Nr. J0789-PHY
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Langmann, E. Fermion current algebras and Schwinger terms in (3+1)-dimensions. Commun.Math. Phys. 162, 1–32 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02105184
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