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View SchemaScreenings and a universal Lie-de Rham cocycle
| Authors | Victor Ginzburg, Vadim Schechtman |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-alg/9704014 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9704014 |
Abstract
Feigin and Fuchs have given a well-known construction of intertwining operators between "Fock-type" modules over the Virasoro algebra. The intertwiners are obtained via contour integration of certain "screening operators" over top homology classes of a configuration space. The main observation of the present paper is that the screening operators contain more information. Specifically, at the chain level, the screening operators provide a certain canonical cocycle of the Virasoro (resp. affine Kac-Moody) algebra with coefficients in the de Rham complex of an operator-valued local system on the configuration space. This way we obtain canonical morphisms from higher homology groups of the above local systems to appropriate higher Ext-groups between the Fock space representations. Our construction is motivated by, and in a special case reduces to the construction of Bowknegt et al, see [BMP1], [BMP2].
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"abstract": "Feigin and Fuchs have given a well-known construction of intertwining\noperators between \"Fock-type\" modules over the Virasoro algebra. The\nintertwiners are obtained via contour integration of certain \"screening\noperators\" over top homology classes of a configuration space. The main\nobservation of the present paper is that the screening operators contain more\ninformation. Specifically, at the chain level, the screening operators provide\na certain canonical cocycle of the Virasoro (resp. affine Kac-Moody) algebra\nwith coefficients in the de Rham complex of an operator-valued local system on\nthe configuration space. This way we obtain canonical morphisms from higher\nhomology groups of the above local systems to appropriate higher Ext-groups\nbetween the Fock space representations. Our construction is motivated by, and\nin a special case reduces to the construction of Bowknegt et al, see [BMP1],\n[BMP2].",
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"title": "Screenings and a universal Lie-de Rham cocycle",
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