Affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras as torsors over the punctured line
Abstract
We interpret and develop a theory of loop algebras as torsors (principal homogeneous spaces) over Laurent polynomial rings . As an application, we recover Kac's realization of affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras.
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