scientific article; zbMATH DE number 16204

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Authors Ivan Todorov

Publication date 26 June 1992

zbMATH Keywords

chiral conformal modelchiral vertex operatorsconformal field theorycorrelation functionsinternal symmetryintertwinersquantum group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0713.00024.] The appearance of the quantum group as the internal symmetry of a minimal chiral conformal model is reviewed. On the level of correlation functions this symmetry is responsible for the braiding of the chiral vertex operators (CVOs). These operators were introduced in the framework of conformal field theory by Moore and Seiberg in order to give a precise meaning to the Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov primary fields. The CVOs are intertwiners between modules over the Virasoro algebra (there are a finite number of such modules in rational conformal field theory) and the braiding properties of the correlation functions can be encoded in the permutation properties of these vertex operators.

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