Associative algebras related to conformal algebras. (Q2426120)

The papers surveys various approaches which lead to the notion of conformal algebras. The basic tool is the language of mulitilinear operations from the reviewer's paper [Usp. Mat. Nauk 24, No. 1(145), 47-59 (1969; Zbl 0188.04901)] and from \textit{J. Lambek}'s paper [Category Theory Homology Theory Appl., Proc. Conf. Seattle Res. Center Battelle Mem. Inst. 1968, 1, 76-122 (1969; Zbl 0198.33701)] with modification which uses actions of a Hopf algebra \(H\). The other basic notion used in the paper is a topological algebra (shortly TC-algebra) with continuous derivations which is imbedded into the algebra \(F(A)\) of some special translation invariant continuous maps from \(H\) to \(A\). It is shown that the class of TC-algebras contains Weyl algebras. If a TC-algebra \(A\) belongs to a variety of algebras \(V\) then any conformal algebra \(C\subseteq F(A)\) is a \(V\)-algebra in a properly defined multicategory \(M^*(H)\).