Consider the fermion Fock space F=⨁k≥0⋀kh of some finite-dimensional 1-particle Hilbert space h. The group Bog(F) of Bogoliubov transformations can be defined as the set of unitary maps U on F for which there are linear maps u:h→h and v:h→h∗ such that Ua∗(f)U∗=a∗(uf)+a(J∗(v(f)))∀f∈h,
where a∗,a:h→B(F) denote the usual fermion creation- and annihilation operators and J:h→h∗ denotes the Riesz isomorphism. It is not hard to see that these u and v define a unitary map Φ(U)∈U(h⊕h∗) commuting with J, where
Φ(U):=(uJ∗vJ∗vJuJ∗),J:=(0J∗J0).
Defining G:={A∈U(h⊕h∗)∣AJ=JA}, it turns out that Φ defines a short exact sequence of Lie groups 1→S1→Bog(F)→G→1,
Now my question is: does this sequence split (or, put differently, is Bog(F)≅S1×G)?
Note that, if we are working in the category of groups (as opposed to Lie groups), central extensions of the group G by S1 are classified (upto isomorphism) by the cohomology group H2(G,S1). If this classification is also valid in the Lie group setting, there might be some general result showing that H2(G,S1)=0, which would answer my question positively.
This post imported from StackExchange MathOverflow at 2019-03-12 18:54 (UTC), posted by SE-user Robert Rauch