0000000000709788
AUTHOR
J. Mickelsson
On the unification of electroweak interactions with gravity
It is shown that the electroweak interactions in the Salam-Weinberg model can be described by a space-time connection form which preserves the space-time metric multiplied by a conformal factor. In addition, one needs an extraSO(2)-connection form. The Dirac field in this formalism is described (after making a certain regularity assumption) by a vierbein field for the space-time metric and a complex scalar field.
Structure of Kac-Moody groups
For a phys ic i s t , a Kac-Moody algebra is the current algebra of a quantum f i e l d theory model in I + I space-time dimensions with an in terna l symmetry group G [ I ] . A More p rec ise ly , l e t ~ be the Lie algebra of G . The Kac-Moody algebra g is a one-dimensional central extension of the loop algebra Map(S I , g ) . I f f l ' f2 C Map(S I ,~ ) , then the commutator is defined point -wise,