Normal-ordering prescription for evaluation of the central charge of Kac-Moody algebra
- 15 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 33 (8) , 2472-2474
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.33.2472
Abstract
We point out a specific rule that supplements the usual normal-ordering prescription used in the quark-model evaluation of Kac-Moody algebras. We show that the rule is in accord with the usual methods that involve the complex contour integral.Keywords
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