RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY OF Diff(S)/S AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE VIRASORO ALGEBRA
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The main result of the paper is a computation of the Ricci curvature of Diff(S)/S. Unlike earlier results on the subject, we do not use the Kähler structure symmetries to compute the Ricci curvature, but rather rely on classical finite-dimensional results of Nomizu et al on Riemannian geometry of homogeneous spaces. Table of
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تاریخ انتشار 2005