Modules for a sheaf of Lie algebras on loop manifolds (Q2909476)

In this paper the author starts with the sheaf of functions on the manifold \(\mathbb{C}^*\times X\), where \(X\) is a smooth irreducible complex algebraic variety of dimension \(N\), with values in a simple finite dimensional Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\). This admits a central extension and the main object of the study in the paper is a certain semidirect product of this central extension with the sheaf of vector fields on \(\mathbb{C}^*\times X\). The author uses vertex algebra methods to construct sheaves of modules for this sheaf of Lie algebras. In the special case of the trivial Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}=0\), one gets representations for the sheaf of vector fields on \(\mathbb{C}^*\times X\), in particular, it is shown that this latter sheaf acts on the chiral de Rham complex and that the chiral differential is a homomorphism of modules over this sheaf.