2000/06/30 by Igor Frenkel, Weiqiang Wang
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #math.QA #hep-th #math.RT
published as J. Algebra 242 (2001)656--671 · Corrections of typos including signs in Lemma 1 and Theorem 4, and other minor changes, to appear in Journal of Alg
arxiv created 2001/04/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
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.