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Vertex operator algebras and the zeta function

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Number Theory Rings and Algebras Representation Theory

Abstract

We announce a new type of "Jacobi identity" for vertex operator algebras, incorporating values of the Riemann zeta function at negative integers. Using this we "explain" and generalize some recent work of S. Bloch's relating values of the zeta function with the commutators of certain operators and Lie algebras of differential operators.

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@article{arxiv.math/9909178,
  title  = {Vertex operator algebras and the zeta function},
  author = {James Lepowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9909178},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

21 pages, LaTeX, to be published in Contemporary Math., Vol. 248