Generalizations of the Virasoro algebra and matrix Sturm–Liouville operators

We study the series of Lie algebras generalizing the Virasoro algebra introduced in [V. Yu, Ovsienko, C. Roger, Functional Anal. Appl. 30 (4) (1996)]. We show that the coadjoint representation of each of these Lie algebras has a natural geometrical interpretation by matrix differential operators generalizing the Sturm–Liouville operators.