On characters of irreducible highest weight representations of Witt algebra (Q762258)

The author determines characters of highest weight representations of the infinite dimensional Witt algebra or, equivalently, of the Virasoro algebra with trivial action of its centre. Together with the character formulas obtained by \textit{A. Rocha-Caridi} and \textit{N. R. Wallach} [Invent. Math. 72, 57-75 (1983; Zbl 0498.17010)], the results of the paper under review provide a complete list of the characters of the above mentioned representations. As the author points out in a ''Note added in proof'', these results have also been published in [\textit{A. Rocha-Caridi} and \textit{N. R. Wallach}, Math. Z. 185, 1-21 (1984; Zbl 0503.17008)].