About the origins of the Virasoro cocycle

DOI10.1142/S1793744210000211MaRDI QIDQ620533zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claude Roger

Publication date 19 January 2011

Published in Confluentes Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0641

zbMATH Keywords

Virasoro algebraLie algebras of vector fieldsLie algebra cohomologycentral extensions of Lie groups and algebrastheory of anomaliesVirasoro cocycle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) History of quantum theory (81-03) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56) Analysis on and representations of infinite-dimensional Lie groups (22E66)

Abstract: This article gives a short sketch of the origins of Virasoro cocycle, both in algebra and quantum field theory.

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