The cohomology algebra of the semi-infinite Weil complex

DOI10.1007/S00220-006-0062-9zbMATH Open1155.17008arXivmath/0501117OpenAlexW3101020696MaRDI QIDQ865083FDOQ865083

Andrew R. Linshaw

Publication date: 13 February 2007

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

Abstract: In 1993, Lian-Zuckerman constructed two cohomology operations on the BRST complex of a conformal vertex algebra with central charge 26. They gave explicit generators and relations for the cohomology algebra equipped with these operations in the case of the c=1 model. In this paper, we describe another such example, namely, the semi-infinite Weil complex of the Virasoro algebra. The semi-infinite Weil complex of a tame Z-graded Lie algebra was defined in 1991 by Feigin-Frenkel, and they computed the linear structure of its cohomology in the case of the Virasoro algebra. We build on this result by giving an explicit generator for each non-zero cohomology class, and describing all algebraic relations in the sense of Lian-Zuckerman, among these generators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501117

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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