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Three theroems are proved. With suitable hypotheses in each case, characterizations are found for the Virasoro algebra, for some of its representations, and for the Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz superalgebra built around the Virasoro algebra.
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Kaplansky, I. The Virasoro algebra. Commun.Math. Phys. 86, 49–54 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205660
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205660