The first current, self-contained presentation of the newly discovered structure of the Schrödinger-Virasoro algebra, this book explains the role this algebra of non-relativistic conformal symmetries plays in some models of non-equilibrium statistical physics.

This monograph provides the first up-to-date and self-contained presentation of a recently discovered mathematical structurethe Schrödinger-Virasoro algebra. Just as Poincaré invariance or conformal (Virasoro) invariance play a key rôle in understanding, respectively, elementary particles and two-dimensional equilibrium statistical physics, this algebra of non-relativistic conformal symmetries may be expected to apply itself naturally to the study of some models of non-equilibrium statistical physics, or more specifically in the context of recent developments related to the non-relativistic AdS/CFT correspondence.

The study of the structure of this infinite-dimensional Lie algebra touches upon topics as various as statistical physics, vertex algebras, Poisson geometry, integrable systems and supergeometry as well as representation theory, the cohomology of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, and the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators.

First monographical account on newly discovered structures in mathematical physics Provides an up-to-date and self-contained presentation Connects various fields of applications in mathematical physics research Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction.- Geometric Definitions of SV.- Basic Algebraic and Geometric Features.- Coadjoint Representaion.- Induced Representations and Verma Modules.- Coinduced Representations.- Vertex Representations.- Cohomology, Extensions and Deformations.- Action of sv on Schrödinger and Dirac Operators.- Monodromy of Schrödinger Operators.- Poisson Structures and Schrödinger Operators.- Supersymmetric Extensions of sv.- Appendix to chapter 6.- Appendix to chapter 11.- Index.