Conformal classical Yang-Baxter equation, $S$-equation and $\mathcal{O}$-operators

Conformal classical Yang-Baxter equation and $S$-equation naturally appear in the study of Lie conformal bialgebras and left-symmetric conformal bialgebras. In this paper, they are interpreted in terms of a kind of operators, namely, $\mathcal O$-operators in the conformal sense. Explicitly, the skew-symmetric part of a conformal linear map $T$ where $T_0=T_\lambda\mid_{\lambda=0}$ is an $\mathcal O$-operator in the conformal sense is a skew-symmetric solution of conformal classical Yang-Baxter equation, whereas the symmetric part is a symmetric solution of conformal $S$-equation. One byproduct is that a finite left-symmetric conformal algebra which is a free $\mathbb{C}[\partial]$-module gives a natural $\mathcal O$-operator and hence there is a construction of solutions of conformal classical Yang-Baxter equation and conformal $S$-equation from the former. Another byproduct is that the non-degenerate solutions of these two equations correspond to 2-cocycles of Lie conformal algebras and left-symmetric conformal algebras respectively. We also give a further study on a special class of $\mathcal{O}$-operators called Rota-Baxter operators on Lie conformal algebras and some explicit examples are presented.