Feigin's cohomology conjecture for the Lie algebra of differential operators

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Let Dif1\mathrm{Dif}_1 denote the Lie algebra of differential operators of order at most one on the circle, and let Ψ3,Ψ~5,Ψ~7,Ψ~9,…\Psi_3,\widetilde\Psi_5,\widetilde\Psi_7,\widetilde\Psi_9,\dots be the odd cocycles constructed or proposed in the paper. Feigin's conjecture. The cohomology algebra is

H∗(Dif1,C)=∧∗(Ψ3,Ψ5,Ψ7,… )⊗S∗(c4,c6,c8,… ),H^*(\mathrm{Dif}_1,\mathbb C)=\wedge^*(\Psi_3,\Psi_5,\Psi_7,\dots)\otimes S^*(c_4,c_6,c_8,\dots),

where the subscript denotes the grading. The conjecture predicts the full structure of this cohomology, but the paper states that it has not been proved; representatives for c4,c6,c8,…c_4,c_6,c_8,\dots were not known, and the nontriviality of the higher odd cocycles remained unresolved.

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Boris Shoikhet, “Cohomology of the Lie algebras of differential operators: lifting formulas”, arXiv:q-alg/9712007 (1997).

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