Virasoro can refer to:
People
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Miguel Ángel Virasoro (philosopher)
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (1900–1966) was an Argentine philosopher.
Life
Born in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1900, Virasoro graduated with a law degree from the University of La Plata.
In 1947 he took over the direction of the magazine ''Logos , ...
(1900–1966)
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Miguel Ángel Virasoro (physicist)
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (;9 May 1940 – 23 July 2021) was an Argentine (naturalized Italian) mathematician and theoretical physicist. Virasoro worked in Argentina, Israel, the United States, and France, but he spent most of his professional caree ...
(1940–2021)
Places
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Gobernador Virasoro
Gobernador Virasoro (formally ''Gobernador Ingeniero Valentín Virasoro'') is a city in the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It had about 30,000 inhabitants at the .
The city lies in the north-east of the province, 64 km ...
, a city in Argentina
Science and mathematics
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Virasoro algebra
In mathematics, the Virasoro algebra is a complex Lie algebra and the unique nontrivial central extension of the Witt algebra. It is widely used in two-dimensional conformal field theory and in string theory. It is named after Miguel Ángel ...
in mathematics and physics
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Virasoro conjecture In algebraic geometry, the Virasoro conjecture states that a certain generating function encoding Gromov–Witten invariants of a smooth projective variety is fixed by an action of half of the Virasoro algebra. The Virasoro conjecture is named afte ...
in mathematics
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Virasoro element
In mathematics, a vertex operator algebra (VOA) is an algebraic structure that plays an important role in two-dimensional conformal field theory and string theory. In addition to physical applications, vertex operator algebras have proven usef ...
of a vertex operator algebra
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Virasoro minimal model
In theoretical physics, a minimal model or Virasoro minimal model is a two-dimensional conformal field theory whose spectrum is built from finitely many irreducible representations of the Virasoro algebra.
Minimal models have been classified, givin ...
in physics
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