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Virasoro algebra and wreath product convolution

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

We present a group theoretic construction of the Virasoro algebra in the framework of wreath products. This can be regarded as a counterpart of a geometric construction of Lehn in the theory of Hilbert schemes of points on a surface.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0006087,
  title  = {Virasoro algebra and wreath product convolution},
  author = {Igor Frenkel and Weiqiang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0006087},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Corrections of typos including signs in Lemma 1 and Theorem 4, and other minor changes, to appear in Journal of Alg