Details of the non-unitarity proof for highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra

Daniel Friedan; Zongan Qiu; Stephen Shenker

doi:10.1007/BF01205483

Details of the non-unitarity proof for highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra

Daniel Friedan, Zongan Qiu, Stephen Shenker

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We give an exposition of the details of the proof that all highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra for c<1 which are not in the discrete series are non-unitary.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	535-542
Number of pages	8
Journal	Communications In Mathematical Physics
Volume	107
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205483
State	Published - Dec 1986
Externally published	Yes

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Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Mathematical Physics

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