I think that general point of view about central charge in books is considering OPE T(z)T(w) for different field theories and finding that general expression for the most singular term is about to be ∼c/2(z−w)4. Then we do operator expansion T(z)=∑Lnzn+2 and see that operators Ln form Virasoro algebra. Or we can write transformation law for T(z) and see that generally it's not a tensor, and here central charge comes into play again.
My question: I wonder if there is any way to start from Virasoro algebra generators and to prove that energy-momentum tensor in arbitrary theory must contain the term c/2(z−w)4 in its OPE with itself, where c is a central charge of Virasoro algebra?
Another way to show this is to prove that operator expansion of T(z) is always ∑Lnzn+2, where Ln are Virasoro generators.
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