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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0722.00025.] The paper is devoted to the study of a class of representations of the conformal group and their field theoretic interpretation. First, a concise introduction to the conformal group and its Lie algebra is given. In the next chapter a survey of elementary induced representations that contain lowest weight subrepresentations of the universal covering of \(SU(2,2)\) is presented. The intertwining maps are then described with special attention paid to invariant subspace structure and partial equivalences among exceptional elementary representations that have the same values for the Casimir operators as the finite-dimensional ones. Positive energy elementary representations are viewed as giving rise to the finite component local fields of QFT. The Knapp-Stein intertwining operators are interpreted as 2-point Wightman functions while differential intertwining maps provide conformally invariant field equations. The interrelation between the group and field theoretical language is illustrated on the example of conformal invariant formulation of free quantum electrodynamics.