Vajiac, Mihaela; Uhlenbeck, Karen Virasoro actions and harmonic maps (after Schwarz). (English) Zbl 1153.53046 J. Differ. Geom. 80, No. 2, 327-341 (2008). Summary: The actions of a half Virasoro algebra have appeared in many integrable systems. In this paper we show that there is an action of a (Half) Virasoro algebra on the space of (2+0) harmonic maps into a Lie group. This action is generated by a natural action on the frames. A similar calculation on the space-time (1+1) harmonic maps yields formulas generated by John Schwarz. MSC: 53C43 Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps 35Q58 Other completely integrable PDE (MSC2000) 17B68 Virasoro and related algebras 58E20 Harmonic maps, etc. × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI arXiv Euclid