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The paper describes the theory of the toroidal Lie algebra, i.e. the Lie algebra of polynomial maps of a complex torus ℂ××ℂ× into a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra g. We describe the universal central extension t of this algebra and give an abstract presentation for it in terms of generators and relations involving the extended Cartan matrix of g. Using this presentation and vertex operators we obtain a large class of integrable indecomposable representations of t in the case that g is of type A, D, or E. The submodule structure of these indecomposable modules is described in terms of the ideal structure of a suitable commutative associative algebra.
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To Professor J. Tits for his sixtieth birthday
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Moody, R.V., Rao, S.E. & Yokonuma, T. Toroidal Lie algebras and vertex representations. Geom Dedicata 35, 283–307 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147350
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147350