Central extensions of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and Lie groups, Virasoro algebra and generalizations

DOI10.1016/0034-4877(96)89288-3zbMATH Open0892.17018OpenAlexW2065619479MaRDI QIDQ1372441FDOQ1372441

Authors: Claude Roger 

Publication date: 12 January 1998

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-4877(96)89288-3

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zbMATH Keywords

surveycentral extensioncohomologyKac-Moody algebrasRiemann surfacesVirasoro algebracyclic homologygroups of diffeomorphismscurrent algebrascontact vector fieldsHamiltonian vector fieldsLie algebra of vector fieldsunimodular vector fieldsVirasoro groupalgebras of meromorphic vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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