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We classify unitarizable modules with highest weight and unitarizable modules of an intermediate series over generalized Virasoro algebras.
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Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 1278–1280, September, 1998.
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Mazorchuk, V.S. On unitarizable modules over generalized Virasoro algebras. Ukr Math J 50, 1461–1463 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02525253
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02525253