Abelian extensions of the group of diffeomorphisms of a torus

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-169

  Billig, Yuly ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

abelian extensions; group of diffeomorphisms; Virasoro Bott group

Indexed keywords

EID: 9744261678     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025750704319     Document Type: Article

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