Date | 2017-02-08 |
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Speaker | Jethro van Ekeren |
Dept. | Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil |
Room | 129-406 |
Time | 10:00-12:00 |
The Virasoro Lie algebra plays an important role in physics (conformal field theory) and in mathematics (representation theory of infinite dimensional algebras). In this talk I wish to explain how the machinery of vertex algebras provides an important tool for understanding the representation theory of the Virasoro algebra.