Semi-infinite Weil complex and the Virasoro algebra

DOI10.1007/BF02100281zbMath0726.17035MaRDI QIDQ802738

Boris L. Feigin, Edward V. Frenkel'

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classes; Virasoro algebra; Weil complex; Fock representations; BRST-cohomology; semi-infinite analogue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B68: Virasoro and related algebras

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

81T70: Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods

17B56: Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras

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