Details of the non-unitary proof for highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra

DOI10.1007/BF01205483zbMath0608.17010OpenAlexW2103507737MaRDI QIDQ1086338

Daniel Harry Friedan, Zongan Qiu, Stephen H. Shenker

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01205483

zbMATH Keywords

Verma modules Virasoro algebra discrete series irreducible highest weight representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68)

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