On the structure of unitary conformal field theory. II: Representation theoretic approach

DOI10.1007/BF02099872zbMath0704.46051MaRDI QIDQ916982

Elsie Sterbin Gottlieb

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

knots; quantum groups; links; tensor product representations; Chiral fusion; Clebsch-Gordan operators; co-multiplications; irreducible subrepresentations of a chiral algebra; representation theory of chiral algebras; Two-dimensional, unitary rational conformal field theory; Yang-Baxter (braid) matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B37: Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations

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

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

46N50: Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics

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