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This is a slightly extended version of a manuscript that Ueno published 1997 as volume 184 of {Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics} with Dekker, New York. The present book provides an up-to-date introduction to conformal field theory with a special emphasis on gauge symmetry, an abstract version of the Wess-Zumino model. In 2007 J.\ E.\ Anderson and K.\ Ueno published two papers where they constructed modular functors in the context of conformal field theory. The construction reveals an interesting relationship between Algebraic Geometry and Topological Quantum Field Theory. For this purpose the present notes provide all the material necessary to construct the modular functor. Chapter 1 recalls the basic facts on compact Riemann surfaces. Chapter 2 presents the basic facts on the representation theory of affine Lie algebras and the related energy-momentum tensor. Chapter 3 defines conformal blocks and correlation functions while in Chapter 4 the sheaf of conformal blocks is constructed carrying a projectively flat connection which Ueno considers as one of the most important facts of his theory. Chapter 6 is devoted to studying the detailed structure of conformal field theory on the Riemann sphere \(P^1\). Vertex operators are discussed together with fundamental solutions of the KZ-equations (so called after work by Knizhnik and Zamolodchikov on the Wess-Zumino model).
- Unitarity of the modular tensor categories associated to unitary vertex operator algebras. I
- Conformal field theory and elliptic cohomology
- Unitarity of the modular tensor categories associated to unitary vertex operator algebras. II.
- Conformal blocks, Verlinde formula and diagram automorphisms
- Veronese quotient models of \(\overline M_{0,n}\) and conformal blocks
- The Heisenberg group and conformal field theory
- Construction of a conformal field theory
- CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY AND MODULAR FUNCTOR
- Conformal field theory and algebraic structure of gauge theory
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- CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY, QUANTUM GROUP AND BERRY PHASE
- Unitarity of the KZ/Hitchin connection on conformal blocks in genus 0 for arbitrary Lie algebras
- On finite generation of the section ring of the determinant of cohomology line bundle
- Conformal blocks, Berenstein-Zelevinsky triangles, and group-based models
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- Conformal blocks and cohomology in genus 0
- Construction of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT from conformal field theory
- Modular functors, cohomological field theories, and topological recursion
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- ABELIAN CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY AND DETERMINANT BUNDLES
- Sewing and propagation of conformal blocks
- Holonomies of gauge fields in twistor space 4: Functional MHV rules and one-loop amplitudes
- Conformal blocks in genus zero and the KZ connection
- Twisted restricted conformal blocks of vertex operator algebras. II: Twisted restricted conformal blocks on totally ramified orbicurves
- Analytic conformal blocks of C₂-cofinite vertex operator algebras. II: Convergence of sewing and higher genus pseudo-q-traces
- Rank-level duality and conformal block divisors
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