Operator algebras and conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/BF02096729zbMath0801.46084OpenAlexW2065419534MaRDI QIDQ1308484

Fabrizio Gabbiani, Jürg Fröhlich

Publication date: 24 November 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02096729

zbMATH Keywords

Virasoro algebraloop groupsHaag dualityvacuum statealgebraic field theoryMoebius grouplocal observablesTomita- Takesaki modular operatorstwo-dimensional, chiral conformal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) 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) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50)

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