The Virasoro algebra: its roles and its strangeness

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• Graeme Segal (University of Oxford)
• Thursday 25 September 2025, 14:45-15:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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The Virasoro algebra is central in all Peter’s work.  It first arose in S-matrix theory, which is an attempt to study fundamental physics while feeding in only minimal information about spacetime. In return the Virasoro algebra constrains the possible nature of spacetime, and perhaps reveals a great deal about it. But the algebra has some strange features, and plays unexpected roles.

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