Alex Feingold

Alex Feingold

Professor Emeritus • Ph.D., 1977, Yale University

At Binghamton since 1979
Office WH 324
Fax (607) 777-2450
Email feingold@binghamton.edu  •  alex@math.binghamton.edu

Areas of Interest

Algebra, Lie algebras and their representations, conformal field theory, piecewise isometry groups

Research

Finite dimensional semisimple Lie algebras, tensor product decomposition of irreducible modules, representation theory of the infinite dimensional Kac-Moody Lie algebras, bosonic and fermionic creation and annihilation operators, affine and hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras, topics in combinatorics, power series identities, modular forms and functions, Siegel modular forms, conformal field theory, string theory, and statistical mechanical models, vertex operator algebras, their modules and intertwining operators, the theory of fusion rules, Weyl groups of Kac-Moody Lie algebras, tessellations associated with Weyl groups, piecewise isometry groups defined from Weyl group tessellations.

Ph.D. Students