Explicit Character Formulae for Positive Energy UIRs of D=4 Conformal Supersymmetry

This paper continues the project of constructing the character formulae for the positive energy unitary irreducible representations of the N-extended D=4 conformal superalgebras su(2,2/N). In the first paper we gave the bare characters which represent the defining odd entries of the characters. Now we give the full explicit character formulae for N=1 and for several important examples for N=2 and N=4.Comment: 48 pages, TeX with Harvmac, overlap in preliminaries with arXiv:hep-th/0406154; some comments and references adde

On a "New" Deformation of GL(2)

We refute a recent claim in the literature of a "new" quantum deformation of GL(2).Comment: 4 pages, LATE

Duality and Representations for New Exotic Bialgebras

We find the exotic matrix bialgebras which correspond to the two non-triangular nonsingular 4x4 R-matrices in the classification of Hietarinta, namely, R_{S0,3} and R_{S1,4}. We find two new exotic bialgebras S03 and S14 which are not deformations of the of the classical algebras of functions on GL(2) or GL(1|1). With this we finalize the classification of the matrix bialgebras which unital associative algebras generated by four elements. We also find the corresponding dual bialgebras of these new exotic bialgebras and study their representation theory in detail. We also discuss in detail a special case of R_{S1,4} in which the corresponding algebra turns out to be a special case of the two-parameter quantum group deformation GL_{p,q}(2).Comment: 33 pages, LaTeX2e, using packages: cite,amsfonts,amsmath,subeqn; reference updated; v3: corrections in subsection 3.

Exotic Bialgebra S03: Representations, Baxterisation and Applications

The exotic bialgebra S03, defined by a solution of the Yang-Baxter equation, which is not a deformation of the trivial, is considered. Its FRT dual algebra $s03_F$ is studied. The Baxterisation of the dual algebra is given in two different parametrisations. The finite-dimensional representations of $s03_F$ are considered. Diagonalisations of the braid matrices are used to yield remarkable insights concerning representations of the L-algebra and to formulate the fusion of finite-dimensional representations. Possible applications are considered, in particular, an exotic eight-vertex model and an integrable spin-chain model.Comment: 24 pages, Latex; V2: revised subsection 4.1, added 9 references, to appear in Annales Henri Poincare in the volume dedicated to D. Arnaudo

Character Formulae and Partition Functions in Higher Dimensional Conformal Field Theory

A discussion of character formulae for positive energy unitary irreducible representations of the the conformal group is given, employing Verma modules and Weyl group reflections. Product formulae for various conformal group representations are found. These include generalisations of those found by Flato and Fronsdal for SO(3,2). In even dimensions the products for free representations split into two types depending on whether the dimension is divisible by four or not.Comment: 43 pages, uses harvmac,version 2 2 references added, minor typos correcte

Anomalies, Unparticles, and Seiberg Duality

We calculate triangle anomalies for fermions with non-canonical scaling dimensions. The most well known example of such fermions (aka unfermions) occurs in Seiberg duality where the matching of anomalies (including mesinos with scaling dimensions between 3/2 and 5/2) is a crucial test of duality. By weakly gauging the non-local action for an unfermion, we calculate the one-loop three-current amplitude. Despite the fact that there are more graphs with more complicated propagators and vertices, we find that the calculation can be completed in a way that nearly parallels the usual case. We show that the anomaly factor for fermionic unparticles is independent of the scaling dimension and identical to that for ordinary fermions. This can be viewed as a confirmation that unparticle actions correctly capture the physics of conformal fixed point theories like Banks-Zaks or SUSY QCD.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figur

On the Unitarity of D=9,10,11 Conformal Supersymmetry

We consider the unitarity of D=9,10,11 conformal supersymmetry using the recently established classification of the UIRs of the superalgebras osp(1|2n,R).Comment: 7 pages, LATEX2e{czjphys} (amsmath,amssymb); v3: important corrections, Plenary talk by VKD at the XIII Colloquium "Quantum Groups and Integrable Systems", Prague, 17-19.6.2004; to appear in Czech. J. Phys.; v4: small corrections to coincide with journal versio

A Jordanian quantum two-photon/Schrodinger algebra

A non-standard quantum deformation of the two-photon algebra $h_6$ is constructed, and its quantum universal R-matrix is given. Representations of this new quantum algebra are studied on the Fock space and translated into Fock-Bargmann realizations that provide a direct formalism for the definition of deformed states of light. Finally, the isomorphism between $h_6$ and the (1+1) Schr\"odinger algebra is used to introduce a new (non-standard) Hopf algebra deformation of this latter symmetry algebra.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, misprints correcte