The A-D-E classification of minimal and \(A_ 1^{(1)}\) conformal invariant theories

DOI10.1007/BF01221394zbMath0639.17008MaRDI QIDQ1100270

B. George

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory; partition function; characters; highest weight representations; central charge; Virasoro algebra; simply laced Lie algebras; affine algebra; Coxeter number; modular invariant expressions; simple complex Lie algebras of types A, D or E

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B10: Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights)

17B67: Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras

81T25: Quantum field theory on lattices

17B65: Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras

81T99: Quantum field theory; related classical field theories

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