Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Mathematical Physics
31 (1990), S. 2059-2060
ISSN:
1089-7658
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Physics
Notes:
It is shown that the structure constants of the Virasoro algebra are uniquely specified, up to rescaling of the generators, by the requirement that they be nonvanishing. Permitting some of the structure constants to vanish leads to other Lie algebras, including the Witt algebras. Given the grading of the Virasoro algebra, nonvanishing of the structure constants is both necessary and sufficient for the algebra to be the Virasoro algebra.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.528657
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