Semi-infinite homology and 2D gravity. I

DOI10.1007/BF02099398zbMath0849.17028OpenAlexW2004711101MaRDI QIDQ1193104

Gregg J. Zuckerman, Bong H. Lian

Publication date: 27 September 1992

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02099398

zbMATH Keywords

Virasoro algebramatrix modelsLiouville fieldtwo-dimensional quantum gravityconformal gaugecontinuum 2D gravitysemi-infinite homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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