RT Journal Article T1 Internal labelling operators and contractions of Lie algebras A1 Campoamor Stursberg, Otto-Rudwig AB We analyze under which conditions the missing label problem associated to a reduction chain s′ ⊂ s of (simple) Lie algebras can be completely solved by means of an In¨on¨u-Wigner contraction g naturally related to the embedding. This provides a new interpretation of the missing label operators in terms of the Casimir operators of the contracted algebra, and shows that the available labeling operators are not completely equivalent. Further, the procedure is used to obtain upper bounds for the number of invariants of affine Lie algebras arising as contractions of semisimple algebras. PB IOP Publishing Ltd SN 1751-8113 YR 2007 FD 2007 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50621 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50621 LA eng NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia DS Docta Complutense RD 19 mar 2026