The Virasoro algebra and its representations in physics
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In this report for the course “Lie algebras and quantum groups” at KTH I discuss the origin of the Virasoro algebra, give the physical motivation for studying its unitary irreducible highest weight representations, and examine the necessary and sufficient conditions for such representations to exist.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005