Semi-infinite Weil complex and the Virasoro algebra

DOI10.1007/BF02100281zbMath0726.17035OpenAlexW4242648277MaRDI QIDQ802738

Boris L. Feigin, Edward V. Frenkel'

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02100281

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesVirasoro algebraWeil complexFock representationsBRST-cohomologysemi-infinite analogue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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