We give an explicit construction of the affine Lie algebra A(~ 1) as an algebra of differential operators on C[xl, x3, x 5 .... ]. This algebra is spanned by the creation and annihilation operators and by the homogeneous components of a certain "exponential generating function" which is strikingly similar to the vertex operator in the string model.
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