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Cohomology of some nilpotent subalgebras of the Virasoro and Kac-Moody Lie algebras

  • B. L. Feigin*
  • , D. B. Fuchs
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The homology of the Lie algebra of algebraic vector fields in the complex line with trivial 3-jet at the point 0 with the coefficients in irreducible highest weight representations of the Virasoro Lie algebra is calculated. The same is done for vector fields with trivial 1-jets at two distinguished points. The class of quasi- finite representations of the Virasoro Lie algebra naturally arises which is the substitute for the class of finite-dimensional representations. The similar results for Kac-Moody Lie algebras are given as well as some conjectures and announcements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)209-235
Number of pages27
JournalJournal of Geometry and Physics
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1988
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cohomology
  • Kac-Moody algebras
  • Virasoro algebras

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