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Representation Theory of the Virasoro Algebra / by Kenji Iohara, Yoshiyuki Koga
(Springer Monographs in Mathematics. ISSN:21969922)

Edition	1st ed. 2011.
Publisher	(London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2011
Language	English
Size	XVIII, 474 p : online resource
Authors	*Iohara, Kenji author Koga, Yoshiyuki author SpringerLink (Online service)
Subjects	LCSH:Algebra LCSH:Nonassociative rings LCSH:Mathematical physics LCSH:Topological groups LCSH:Lie groups LCSH:Special functions LCSH:Discrete mathematics FREE:Algebra FREE:Non-associative Rings and Algebras FREE:Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics FREE:Topological Groups and Lie Groups FREE:Special Functions FREE:Discrete Mathematics
Notes	Preliminary -- Classification of Harish-Chandra Modules -- The Jantzen Filtration -- Determinant Formulae -- Verma Modules I: Preliminaries -- Verma Modules II: Structure Theorem -- A Duality among Verma Modules -- Fock Modules -- Rational Vertex Operator Algebras -- Coset Constructions for sl2 -- Unitarisable Harish-Chandra Modules -- Homological Algebras -- Lie p-algebras -- Vertex Operator Algebras The Virasoro algebra is an infinite dimensional Lie algebra that plays an increasingly important role in mathematics and theoretical physics. This book describes some fundamental facts about the representation theory of the Virasoro algebra in a self-contained manner. Topics include the structure of Verma modules and Fock modules, the classification of (unitarizable) Harish-Chandra modules, tilting equivalence, and the rational vertex operator algebras associated to the so-called minimal series representations. Covering a wide range of material, this book has three appendices which provide background information required for some of the chapters. Fundamental results are organized in a unified way and existing proofs refined. For instance in chapter three, a generalization of Jantzen filtration is reformulated in an algebraic manner, and geometric interpretation is provided. Statements, widely believed to be true, are collated, and results which are known but not verified are proven, such as the corrected structure theorem of Fock modules in chapter eight. This book will be of interest to a wide range of mathematicians and physicists from the level of graduate students to researchers HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-160-8

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