Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 306 3 vi Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Extract a mode usingIn the radially ordered double contour for the anticommutator, the simple pole gives . Expanding about , the third-order pole contributes one half of its second derivative,The remaining contour is nonzero only for . Restoring the general leading OPE coefficient givesThis is the fermionic relation in the N=1 super-Virasoro algebra.