Unitary representations of the Virasoro algebra

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-86-05350-0zbMath0611.17005MaRDI QIDQ1087626

Akihiro Tsuchiya, Yukihiro Kanie

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

highest weight representations; unitary representations; Virasoro algebra; Kac-Moody algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B10: Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights)

17B67: Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras

17B65: Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras

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