A Mathematical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory

DOI10.1007/978-3-540-70690-8MaRDI QIDQ3130254zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Schottenloher

Publication date 23 April 1997

Published in Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70690-8

zbMATH Keywords

bibliographybosonic string theorycentral extensions of groupscentral extensions of Lie algebrascompact Riemann surfacesconformal field theoriesconformal groupsconformal symmetries in dimension twodiffeomorphism group of the circledimension formulafusion ruleKac determinantmoduli spaces of vector bundlesrepresentationspaces of generalized theta functionstwo-dimensional conformal field theoryVerlinde formulaVerma modulesVirasoro algebraWitt algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to nonassociative rings and algebras (17-02) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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