Abstract
Weyl denominator identity for the basic simple Lie superalgebras was formulated by Kac and Wakimoto and was proven by them for the defect one case. In this paper we prove the identity for the rest of the cases.
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I am very grateful to V. Kac for his patience and useful comments. I would like to thank D. Novikov and A. Novikov for their support. Supported in part by ISF Grant No. 1142/07 and by the Minerva foundation with funding from the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research.
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Gorelik, M. (2012). Weyl Denominator Identity for Finite-Dimensional Lie Superalgebras. In: Joseph, A., Melnikov, A., Penkov, I. (eds) Highlights in Lie Algebraic Methods. Progress in Mathematics, vol 295. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8274-3_7
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