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Application of a "Jacobi identity" for vertex operator algebras to zeta values and differential operators

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Number Theory Rings and Algebras Representation Theory

Abstract

We explain how to use a certain new "Jacobi identity" for vertex operator algebras, announced in a previous paper (math.QA/9909178), to interpret and generalize recent work of S. Bloch's relating values of the Riemann zeta function at negative integers with a certain Lie algebra of operators.

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@article{arxiv.math/9909183,
  title  = {Application of a "Jacobi identity" for vertex operator algebras to zeta values and differential operators},
  author = {James Lepowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9909183},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

20 pages, LaTeX; more exposition and two references added; to appear in Letters in Mathematical Physics