Toward the Universal Mumford form on Sato Grassmannians

Abstract

We construct a local universal Mumford form on a product of Sato Grassmannians using the flow of the Virasoro algebra. The existence of this universal Mumford form furthers the proposal that the Sato Grassmannian provides a universal moduli space with applications to string theory. Our approach using the Virasoro flow is an alternative to using the KP flow, which in particular allows for a bosonic universal Mumford form to be constructed. Applying the same method, we construct a local universal super Mumford form on a product of super Sato Grassmannians using the flow of the Neveu-Schwarz algebra.