From geometric quantization to conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/BF02097053zbMath0703.22014MaRDI QIDQ915886

Anton Yu. Alekseev, Samson L. Shatashvili

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory; path integral; representations; Virasoro group; geometric quantization; matrix coefficients; Kac-Moody groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81S40: Path integrals in quantum mechanics

22E70: Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations

22E65: Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties

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