Abstract
We give a characterisation of central extensions of a Lie group $G$ by $C^\times$, in terms of a differential two-form on G and a differential one-form on $G \times G$. This is applied to the case of the central extension of the loop group.
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Published: 1 January 2001
First available in Project Euclid: 17 November 2014
zbMATH: 1127.22009
MathSciNet: MR1852705
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