Rational conformal theories from Witten's knot approach: Constraints and their analysis

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(91)90241-YzbMath0738.57004OpenAlexW2081878831MaRDI QIDQ1814431

Siddhartha Sen, Philip Murphy

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(91)90241-y

zbMATH Keywords

Wilson loopsVirasoro algebrasknot invariantsconstraintsfusion coefficientschiral algebrarational conformal field theories\(SU(2)\) affine seriesdiscrete unitary seriesRiemann surface diffeomorphisms

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