Since every question has to be asked in a seperate topic, I'm asking a question refering to the following topic: Beginners questions concerning Conformal Field Theory In particular I'm referring to the subsection "Implementing a symmetry on operators" of the answer given by Lubos Motl.

It is clear to me that we obtain $$\delta\phi=i\epsilon [L_{m},\phi]=i \epsilon z^{m+1} \partial_{z} \phi$$ and that $z^{m+1} \partial_{z}$ are the generators of conformal symmetry. What confuses me though is that these generators fulfill the Witt-Algebra and not the Virasoro Algebra. Since we're in the quantum case and we want to show that the theory is invariant on a quantum level, shouldn't we get generators that fulfill the Virasoro Algebra?

Since every question has to be asked in a seperate topic, I'm asking a question refering to the following topic: Beginners questions concerning Conformal Field Theory In particular I'm referring to the subsection "Implementing a symmetry on operators" of the answer given by Lubos Motl.

It is clear to me that we obtain $$\delta\phi=i\epsilon [L_{m},\phi]=i \epsilon z^{m+1} \partial_{z} \phi$$ and that $z^{m+1} \partial_{z}$ are the generators of conformal symmetry. What confuses me though is that these generators fulfill the Witt-Algebra and not the Virasoro Algebra. Since we're in the quantum case and we want to show that the theory is invariant on a quantum level, shouldn't we get generators that fulfill the Virasoro Algebra?

Since every question has to be asked in a seperate topic, I'm asking a question refering to the following topic: Beginners questions concerning Conformal Field Theory In particula I'm refering to the subsection "Implementing a symmetry on operators" of the answer given by Lubos Motl.

It is clear to me that we obtain $\delta\phi=i\epsilon [L_{m},\phi]=i \epsilon z^{m+1} \partial_{z} \phi$ and that $z^{m+1} \partial_{z}$ are the generators of conformal symmetry. What confuses me though is that these generators fulfill the Witt-Algebra and not the Virasoro Algebra. Since we're in the quantum case and we want to show that the theory is invariant on a quantum level, shouldn't we get generators that fulfill the Virasoro Algebra?

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Since every question has to be asked in a seperate topic, I'm asking a question refering to the following topic: Beginners questions concerning Conformal Field Theory In particular I'm referring to the subsection "Implementing a symmetry on operators" of the answer given by Lubos Motl.

It is clear to me that we obtain $$\delta\phi=i\epsilon [L_{m},\phi]=i \epsilon z^{m+1} \partial_{z} \phi$$ and that $z^{m+1} \partial_{z}$ are the generators of conformal symmetry. What confuses me though is that these generators fulfill the Witt-Algebra and not the Virasoro Algebra. Since we're in the quantum case and we want to show that the theory is invariant on a quantum level, shouldn't we get generators that fulfill the Virasoro Algebra?