Virasoro actions and harmonic maps (after Schwarz)

DOI10.4310/JDG/1221066634MaRDI QIDQ951979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. B. Vajiac, Karen Uhlenbeck

Publication date 5 November 2008

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609580, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1221066634

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: The actions of a half Virasoro algebra have appeared in many integrable systems. In this paper we show that there is an action of a (Half) Virasoro algebra on the space of (2+0) harmonic maps into a Lie group. This action is generated by a natural action on the frames. A similar calculation on the space-time (1+1) harmonic maps yields formulas generated by John Schwarz.

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